{"title":"Intergovernmental Conflict and Censorship: Evidence From China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign","authors":"Maiting Zhuang","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3267445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3267445","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 I study how local Chinese newspapers report on the national anti-corruption campaign, by collecting a large-scale dataset of newspaper articles, internet searches and comments on social media. Despite greater reader interest, local newspapers underreport and deemphasise corruption scandals involving high-level officials from their own province. Underreporting is greater when a corrupt official is well connected and a newspaper does not rely on advertising revenue. City-level newspapers report less about corruption in their own city, but are more likely to report about corruption within the provincial government. I present suggestive evidence that this type of localised censorship reduces the accountability of local governments.","PeriodicalId":227810,"journal":{"name":"CommRN: Communication Law & Policy: Asia & Oceania (Topic)","volume":"219 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122848569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"India’s Fast Approaching Data Driven Antitrust Reckoning","authors":"Anulekha Nandi","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3536118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3536118","url":null,"abstract":"As India’s traditional and digital economy increasingly converge, it will be incumbent upon relevant authorities to foresee and anticipate the newer contours of competition and market power given the unique characteristics of data driven industries. Given the economic dominance of large technology and internet companies in providing search, marketing, content, social networking, and business infrastructural services, it becomes important to analyse the limiting effect such power can have on economic and social sustainability. This essay attempts to find commonalities between antitrust cases brought against technology companies and outline the emerging issues and policy challenges within an increasingly data driven business landscape. Working towards objectives of economic sustainability and fairness it concludes by offering potential recommendations for the same after critically evaluating existing approaches.","PeriodicalId":227810,"journal":{"name":"CommRN: Communication Law & Policy: Asia & Oceania (Topic)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116663871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}