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Internet Censorship in the Digital Divide: Why ICT Does Not Effectively Increase Chinese Worker Activism Publicity

Yining Zhou
- 01 Jan 2017 - 
- Vol. 45, Iss: 3, pp 340-361
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This paper explored why information and communication technology (ICT) does not show effective power in increasing Chinese worker activism publicity with the digital divide framework and found that strategic skills and motivations, perceived importance of the media in activism as well as media censorship and users' coping strategies are influential in preventing them from effectively using ICT for activism.
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This article is published in Asian Journal of Social Science.The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 2 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Digital divide & Internet censorship.

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The ‘authoritarian determinism’ and reductionisms in China-focused political communication studies:

Tianru Guan
- 15 Feb 2019 - 
TL;DR: The authors posits the term "authoritarian determinism" to describe a persistent and general problem with the current trend of China-focused political and communication theory, which empowers the authoritarians.
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Globalized fears, localized securities: ‘Terrorism’ in political polarization in a one-party state

Tianru Guan, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2019 - 
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the existence of opinion polarization on terrorism in China's digital media sphere and proposed an alternative explanation for the motivation/driver of mass polarization in digitally networked communication in China, identified as the effect of globalization and localization.