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1.1 The Puzzle of Porous Censorship |
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1.2 Distraction and Diversion |
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4 | (6) |
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1.3 Implications and Challenges to Conventional Wisdom |
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10 | (7) |
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17 | (4) |
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21 | (72) |
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2.1 Why Do Governments Censor? |
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21 | (5) |
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2.2 Citizens Are Rationally Ignorant |
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26 | (6) |
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2.3 Traditional Media Care about Story Costs |
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32 | (2) |
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2.4 Citizens Exchange Low-Cost Information Through Social Media |
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34 | (3) |
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37 | (4) |
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2.6 The Mechanisms of Censorship |
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41 | (3) |
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44 | (12) |
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56 | (24) |
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92 | (1) |
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93 | (20) |
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3.1 Modern History of Information Control in China |
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94 | (10) |
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3.2 Censorship of the Chinese Internet |
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104 | (9) |
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4 Reactions to Experience with Censorship |
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4.1 China's Targeted Censorship Strategy |
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117 | (4) |
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4.2 The Costs of Observable Censorship |
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121 | (1) |
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4.3 Matched Comparison of Censored and Uncensored Social Media Users |
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122 | (15) |
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4.4 An Experimental Study of Consumers of Social Media |
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137 | (8) |
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145 | (2) |
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5 The Powerful Influence of Information Friction |
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147 | (43) |
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5.1 The Effects of Content Filtering on the Spread of Information |
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152 | (10) |
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5.2 Structural Frictions and the Great Firewall |
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162 | (20) |
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5.3 When Does Friction Fail? |
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182 | (5) |
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187 | (3) |
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6 Information Flooding: Coordination as Censorship |
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190 | (33) |
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6.1 What Effect Can Propaganda Have in the Digital Age? |
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195 | (4) |
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199 | (2) |
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6.3 Detection of Information Flooding in Newspapers and Online Media |
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201 | (14) |
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6.4 The Influence of Flooding on the Spread of Information |
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215 | (6) |
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221 | (2) |
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7 Implications for a Digital World |
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223 | (14) |
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7.1 Why Porous Censorship Matters |
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224 | (3) |
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7.2 Authoritarian Resilience |
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227 | (3) |
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7.3 Implications for Free Speech in Democracies |
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230 | (2) |
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7.4 A Call for Future Research |
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232 | (5) |
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237 | (6) |
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8.1 Description of the China Urban Governance Survey |
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237 | (1) |
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8.2 Words Related to Censorship, Mutual Information |
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237 | (4) |
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8.3 Tibet Self-Immolations Negative Binomial Model |
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241 | (2) |
Works Cited |
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Index |
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