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Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall

Margaret E. Roberts

If online censorship is full of holes and easy to dodge, why do governments still spend so much on it, and why does it still work?

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Author
Margaret E. Roberts

Why read it

  • You will see how making information a little harder to reach can shape what a whole population reads
  • You will notice how a flood of other news can bury a story without ever deleting it
  • You will learn why control that looks like ordinary posts is harder to spot than a blocked page

Who it is for

  • A journalist trying to judge what a state really blocks online
  • A policy student comparing how states manage public attention
  • A social media user wondering how much a feed is being steered

Contents

  1. Dedication Page
  2. 1.1 THE PUZZLE OF POROUS CENSORSHIP
  3. 1.2 DISTRACTION AND DIVERSION
  4. 1.3 IMPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES TO CONVENTIONAL WISDOM
  5. 1.4 THE PLAN OF THE BOOK
  6. 2.1 WHY DO GOVERNMENTS CENSOR?
  7. 2.2 CITIZENS ARE RATIONALLY IGNORANT
  8. 2.3 TRADITIONAL MEDIA CARE ABOUT STORY COSTS
  9. 2.4 CITIZENS EXCHANGE LOW-COST INFORMATION THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA
  10. 2.5 WHAT IS CENSORSHIP?
  11. 2.6 THE MECHANISMS OF CENSORSHIP
  12. 2.7 FEAR
  13. 2.8 FRICTION
  14. 2.9 FLOODING
  15. 2.10 CONCLUSION
  16. 3.1 MODERN HISTORY OF INFORMATION CONTROL IN CHINA
  17. 3.2 CENSORSHIP OF THE CHINESE INTERNET
  18. 4.1 CHINA’S TARGETED CENSORSHIP STRATEGY
  19. 4.2 THE COSTS OF OBSERVABLE CENSORSHIP
  20. 4.3 MATCHED COMPARISON OF CENSORED AND UNCENSORED SOCIAL MEDIA USERS
  21. 4.4 AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CONSUMERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA
  22. 4.5 CONCLUSION
  23. 5.1 THE EFFECTS OF CONTENT FILTERING ON THE SPREAD OF INFORMATION
  24. 5.2 STRUCTURAL FRICTIONS AND THE GREAT FIREWALL
  25. 5.3 WHEN DOES FRICTION FAIL?
  26. 5.4 CONCLUSION
  27. 6.1 WHAT EFFECT CAN PROPAGANDA HAVE IN THE DIGITAL AGE?
  28. 6.2 FLOODING IN CHINA
  29. 6.3 DETECTION OF INFORMATION FLOODING IN NEWSPAPERS AND ONLINE MEDIA
  30. 6.4 THE INFLUENCE OF FLOODING ON THE SPREAD OF INFORMATION
  31. 6.5 CONCLUSION
  32. 7.1 WHY POROUS CENSORSHIP MATTERS
  33. 7.2 AUTHORITARIAN RESILIENCE
  34. 7.3 IMPLICATIONS FOR FREE SPEECH IN DEMOCRACIES
  35. 7.4 A CALL FOR FUTURE RESEARCH
  36. 8.1 DESCRIPTION OF THE CHINA URBAN GOVERNANCE SURVEY
  37. 8.2 WORDS RELATED TO CENSORSHIP, MUTUAL INFORMATION
  38. 8.3 TIBET SELF-IMMOLATIONS NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODEL

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