Selective Censorship on Rightists and Leftists? An Observation and Analysis of Censored Social Media Posts in China

IF 1.9 2区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Problems of Post-Communism Pub Date : 2021-09-10 DOI:10.1080/10758216.2021.1969249

Yue Jiang, Xianwen Kuang

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study examines whether social media censorship in China is selective for online social groups of different ideologies, namely rightists and leftists, what content generated by these groups is censored, and what censorship methods are employed on the two groups. To answer these underexplored questions, we observed censorship practices on Sina Weibo for a full month and collected and analyzed the censored social media posts of both rightists and leftists. Our analysis confirmed the existence of selective censorship on posts by the two groups.

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对右派和左派的选择性审查？中国社交媒体删帖现象的观察与分析

摘要本研究考察了中国的社交媒体审查是否对不同意识形态的网络社交群体（即右派和左派）有选择性，这些群体产生的内容被审查，以及这两个群体采用了什么审查方法。为了回答这些未被充分挖掘的问题，我们在新浪微博上观察了整整一个月的审查做法，并收集和分析了被审查的右翼和左翼社交媒体帖子。我们的分析证实，这两个团体对帖子存在选择性审查。

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Problems of Post-Communism POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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4.00

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12.50%

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