Description |
1 online resource (vii, 174 pages) : illustrations |
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Oxford studies digital politics series |
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Oxford studies in digital politics.
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Contents |
Cover -- Series -- Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The China Case: Strong State, Popular Contention, and the Internet -- 2. The Chinese Internet: Citizen Awareness of Government Control -- 3. What Does Directed Digital Dissidence Look Like? Critical Information Flows, Trust, and Support for Protest -- 4. Social Media: The Battleground of the Information War -- 5. Jumping Over the Great Firewall: A Threat to the Chinese Strategy -- 6. The Digital Dissident Citizen: Who Are the Wall Jumpers? |
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7. Managing the Information War: Voices Heard from Beyond the Wall Are Lost -- 8. Digital Directed Dissidence in Action: Applications and Its Limits -- 9. Will Directed Digital Dissidence Keep Working? -- Appendix A: Survey Questions -- Appendix B: Normality of Residuals for All Models -- Appendix C: Chinese Social Media Posts -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Summary |
"In this book, we use the case of China to examine how state actors can transform the Internet and online discourse into a key strategic element for maintaining the government and relieving domestic pressure on national institutions. While scholars have long known that the democratizing influence of the Internet can be blunted by autocratic states, in this book, we show that the online sphere can effectively be co-opted by states like China and transformed into a supporting institution. Our theory, Directed Digital Dissidence, explains how autocracies manage critical online information flows and the impact this management has on mass opinion and behavior. While the expansion of the Internet may stimulate dissidence, it also provides the central government an avenue to direct that dissent away and toward selected targets. Under the strategy of Directed Digital Dissidence, the Internet becomes a mechanism to dissipate threats by serving as a targeted relief valve rather than a building pressure cooker. We consider the process and impact of this evolving state led manipulation of the political Internet using data and examples from China. We use an original large-scale random survey of Chinese citizens to measure Internet use, social media use, and political attitudes. We also consider the impact of the state firewall. Beyond simply identifying the government strategy, we focus on testing the effectiveness of the strategy with empirical data. We also consider how the redirection of dissent can be done across a broader range of targets, including non-state actors and other nations"-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 25, 2023) |
Subject |
Communication in politics -- Technological innovations -- China
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Internet -- Political aspects -- China
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Political participation -- China -- Computer network resources
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Social media -- Political aspects -- China
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Political participation -- Technological innovations -- China
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Dictatorship -- China
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Communication in politics -- Technological innovations.
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Dictatorship.
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Internet -- Political aspects.
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Political participation -- Computer network resources.
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Political participation -- Technological innovations.
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Social media -- Political aspects.
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China.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Han, Rongbin, author.
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MacDonald, Andrew W., author.
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Wagner, Kevin M., 1971- author.
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LC no. |
2023022522 |
ISBN |
9780197680414 |
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0197680410 |
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0197680402 |
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9780197680421 |
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0197680429 |
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9780197680407 |
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