Social media platforms allow users worldwide to create and share information, forging vast
sensing networks that allow information on certain topics to be collected, stored, mined, and …

The recent explosive publications of big data studies have well documented the rise of big
data and its ongoing prevalence. Different types of “big data” have emerged and have …

Introduction Censorship has a long history in China, extending from the efforts of Emperor
Qin to burn Confucian texts in the third century BCE to the control of traditional broadcast …

As the digital becomes increasingly entwined within everyday life, ethnography's value as a
key methodological and analytical approach to understand the ways in which digital media …

The advent of online media, and particularly social media, has led to scholarly debates
about their implications. Authoritarian countries are interesting in this respect because social …

The authors investigated censorship practices and the use of microblogs-or weibos, in
Chinese-using 111 million microblogs collected between 1 January and 30 June 2012. To …

Chinese social media and big data represent an important share of the global Internet, but
have received relatively less attention. This editorial examines three dominant discourses …

Objective. We analyzed misinformation about Ebola circulating on Twitter and Sina Weibo,
the leading Chinese microblog platform, at the outset of the global response to the 2014 …

This perspective is written to give a rapid response to discuss the role of media in risk
communication in the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze two sets of …

It appears that nationalism has been on the rise in China in recent years, particularly among
online communities. Scholars agree that the Chinese government is facing pressure from …