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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Media Censorship"”.
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A Framing Analysis of #MeToo YouTube-based News Coverage in BRICS: Media Censorship, State-controlled Channels & the Obstruction of Online Feminist Activism in China, Russia and Brazil
This comparative study investigates the media representation of YouTube-based news about the #MeToo campaign, feminism, and sexual harassment accounts in three BRICS nations: China, Russia and Brazil. The situation of women in the Global South was at the centre of discussions during the 2018 BRICS …
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Anomalous Information Detection in Social Media
… types of anomalous information pattern in social media and news outlets. We focus on three types of anomalous information, including (1) media censorship in news outlets, which is information that should be published but is actually missing, (2) fake news in social media, which is unreliable …
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The role of Facebook and Twitter in generating social and political change during the 'Arab Spring’ uprisings of Tunisia and Egypt
… these three theories by suggesting that social media worked as an effective public sphere for activism, as well as being a communicative/organisational tool that generated some social/political changes. Nonetheless, this research suggests that the effectiveness of social media began to wane very …
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Diversionary Repression in Electoral Autocracies: Crisis Onset, Loss-Domain Conditions, and State Escalation
… mix of selective force, legal manipulation, and media censorship. Overall, the research suggests that modern diversionary repression is moving away from blunt physical violence; today's autocratic toolkits are increasingly institutionalized, conditional, and heavily focused on controlling the …
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The Political Role of Social Media in Emerging Democracies
… (ICT) enables the emergence of new forms of media. One of these new forms is social media. The research literature suggests that the strengthening of the media as an independent institution is essential for social development because, in a regimen of a free press, the media can report and …
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Courtship, relationship, marriage and the state: regulation of contemporary Chinese popular media
… explores the regulation of sex-related popular media text in contemporary China, across the expected lifespan of procreative heterosexual marriage. The three case studies encompass regulation of television programming, television drama, and film. The regulative actions vary from public notices …
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Understanding and circumventing censorship on Chinese social media
… research has explored the technology behind the censorship mechanisms, little work has focused on the effects of censorship on online and offline behaviors. In this thesis, I bridge this gap by conducting a mixed-method study to gain a deeper understanding of these effects. The results of the …