More Than Plain Text: Censorship Deletion in The Chinese Social Media
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More Than Plain Text : Censorship Deletion in The Chinese Social Media. / Liu, Jun; Zhao, Jingyi.
In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 72, No. 1, 2021, p. 18-31.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - More Than Plain Text
T2 - Censorship Deletion in The Chinese Social Media
AU - Liu, Jun
AU - Zhao, Jingyi
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Although the Internet allows people to circulate messages using different media, most censorship studies discuss the removal of text content. This article presents a systematic study regarding the censorship of both plain text and multimedia content on the Chinese Internet. By analyzing both censored and surviving posts on the Chinese social media platform Weibo during the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, we find that multimedia posts suffered more intensive censorship deletion than plain text posts, with censorship programs being oriented more toward multimedia content like images than the text content of multimedia posts. Our analysis has significant implications for censorship studies, information control, and politics in the “post-text” era.
AB - Although the Internet allows people to circulate messages using different media, most censorship studies discuss the removal of text content. This article presents a systematic study regarding the censorship of both plain text and multimedia content on the Chinese Internet. By analyzing both censored and surviving posts on the Chinese social media platform Weibo during the 2014 Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, we find that multimedia posts suffered more intensive censorship deletion than plain text posts, with censorship programs being oriented more toward multimedia content like images than the text content of multimedia posts. Our analysis has significant implications for censorship studies, information control, and politics in the “post-text” era.
U2 - 10.1002/asi.24390
DO - 10.1002/asi.24390
M3 - Journal article
VL - 72
SP - 18
EP - 31
JO - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
JF - Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
SN - 1532-2890
IS - 1
ER -
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