Chinese Authoritarianism in the Information Age: Internet, Media, and Public Opinion

ISBN-13: 9780367592899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 254 str.

Suisheng Zhao

Opis

This book examines information and public opinion control by the authoritarian state in response to popular access to information and upgraded political communication channels among the citizens in contemporary China. The chapters originally published as articles in the Journal of Contemporary China.

Spis treści

Part I: Internet Technology and Cyber China  Chapter 1 How "Networked Authoritarianism" was operationalized in China: Methods and Procedures of Public Opinion Control Wen-Hsuan Tsai Chapter 2 Cyber China, Upgrading Propaganda, Public Opinion Work and Social Management for the 21^st Century Rogier Creemers  Chapter 3  Internet Exposure and Political Beliefs among Educated Youth in China  Shiru Wang Chapter 4 Does ICT Diffusion Increase Government Responsiveness in Autocracies? An empirical assessment of the political implications of China's Internet  Paul Minard Chapter 5 Consultative Authoritarianism: The drafting of China’s Internet Security Law and E-Commerce Law Jinting Deng, Pinxin Liu  Part II: Public Opinion and Information Management  Chapter 6 Public Focusing Events as Catalysts: An Empirical Study of "Pressure-Induced Legislations" in China  Xin Zhang, Xiaodong Ding  Chapter 7 Information Management during Crisis Events: A Case Study of Beijing Floods of 2012  Maria Repnikova  Chapter 8  Revisiting Political Wariness in China’s Public Opinion Surveys: Experimental Evidence on Responses to Politically Sensitive Questions  Xuchuan Lei & Jie Lu Chapter 9 Distortion and Credibility within China’s Internal Information System  Kezhou Xiao, Brantly Womack  Part III: Media Control and Policy Consequences  Chapter 10 Power Structure and Media Autonomy in China: The Case of Southern Weekend Xia Ying, Bing Guan and Gong Cheng  Chapter 11 Shanzhai Media Culture: Failed Intervention to the Disingenuous Neoliberal Logic of Chinese Media  Jian Xu Chapter 12 Support for Propaganda: Chinese perceptions of public service advertising Ashley Esarey, Daniela Stockmann & Jie Zhang Chapter 13 Acquiring Political Information in Contemporary China: Various Media Channels and Their Respective Correlates  Jie Lu  Chapter 14 Media and Chinese foreign policy Jianwei Wang and Xiaojie Wang

O autorze

Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China.