Digital authoritarianism, China and C0VID

L Khalil - 2020 - JSTOR
The combination of retreating US leadership and the COVID-19 pandemic has emboldened
China to expand and promote its techenabled authoritarianism as world's best practice. The …

Health information consumption under COVID-19 lockdown: An interview study of residents of Hubei Province, China

L Tang, W Zou - Health Communication, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Emerging infectious disease (EID) outbreaks such as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic
create unknown risks, uncertainty, and anxiety around the world. Accurate and timely …

Not everything is as it seems: Digital technology affordance, pandemic control, and the mediating role of sociomaterial arrangements

L Mora, RKR Kummitha, G Esposito - Government Information Quarterly, 2021 - Elsevier
An overly favorable narrative has developed around the role played by digital technologies
in containing Covid-19, which oversimplifies the complexity of technology adoption. This …

Unpacking government social media messaging strategies during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China

Y Li, Y Chandra, Y Fan - Policy & Internet, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A core aspect of agile governance is effectively managing communications between a
government and its citizens. However, doing so during an emergency—particularly a …

The “parallel pandemic” in the context of China: the spread of rumors and rumor-corrections during COVID-19 in Chinese social media

Y Song, KH Kwon, Y Lu, Y Fan… - American Behavioral …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Although studies have investigated cyber-rumoring previous to the pandemic, little research
has been undertaken to study rumors and rumor-corrections during the COVID-19 …

China's “weaponized” vaccine: intertwining between international and domestic politics

D Zhang, AB Jamali - East Asia, 2022 - Springer
Ever since China has formally joined the WHO-backed global COVID-19 vaccine initiative
known as COVAX, there is a presumed notion that China's vaccine diplomacy will make a …

Poking a hole in the wall: Efficient censorship-resistant Internet communications by parasitizing on WebRTC

D Barradas, N Santos, L Rodrigues… - Proceedings of the 2020 …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Many censorship circumvention tools rely on trusted proxies that allow users within
censored regions to access blocked Internet content by tunneling it through a covert channel …

Affective agenda dynamics on social media: interactions of emotional content posted by the public, government, and media during the COVID-19 pandemic

S Zhou, X Yang, Y Wang, X Zheng… - Humanities and Social …, 2023 - nature.com
Emotions shared by posters on social media can have a profound impact on individuals and
society. This was particularly evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. To examine the types …

Agenda dynamics on social media during COVID-19 pandemic: interactions between public, media, and government agendas

S Zhou, X Zheng - Communication Studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Social media has profoundly altered the way the public, the media, and the government set
their agendas. To examine the dynamics between public, government, and media agendas …

The politics of emotion during COVID-19: turning fear into pride in China's WeChat discourse

J de Kloet, J Lin, J Hu - China information, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, we analyse the most popular stories that circulated on WeChat public accounts
concerning personalized experiences of COVID-19 in China during the first three months of …