To what extent are Internet users resilient to online censorship? When does censorship
influence consumption of information and when does it create backlash? Drawing on a …

This article provides a review of recent literature in economics on the effect of mass media
on politics. The focus is on the welfare effects of mass media. I also discuss the likely …

As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for
controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be …

In this paper, we document basic facts regarding public debates about controversial political
issues on Chinese social media. Our documentation is based on a dataset of 13.2 billion …

Working under a model of privacy in which data remain private even from the statistician, we
study the tradeoff between privacy guarantees and the risk of the resulting statistical …

BIBLIOGRAPHY Page 1 “Ai Weiwei China Tax Bill Paid by Supporters.” BBC, November 7,
2011. www.bbc .co.uk/news/world-asia-paci c-15616576. Almond, Gabriel A., and Sidney …

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 …

Following a burgeoning literature on private actors under digital authoritarianism, this study
aims to understand the role played by social media users in sustaining authoritarian rule. It …

Internet censorship mechanisms in China are highly dynamic and yet to be fully accounted
for by existing theories. This study interrogates postpublication censorship on Chinese …

In January, 2018, the global anti-sexual violence and anti-sexual harassment movement–
popularly known as# MeToo–had its Chinese nascence. This study drew upon the theory of …