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Filtering Online Content in China

Filtering Online Content in China

Jyh-An Lee
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 11
ISBN13: 9781609608330|ISBN10: 160960833X|EISBN13: 9781609608347
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-833-0.ch005
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Lee, Jyh-An. "Filtering Online Content in China." Computer-Mediated Communication across Cultures: International Interactions in Online Environments, edited by Kirk St.Amant and Sigrid Kelsey, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 66-76. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-833-0.ch005

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Lee, J. (2012). Filtering Online Content in China. In K. St.Amant & S. Kelsey (Eds.), Computer-Mediated Communication across Cultures: International Interactions in Online Environments (pp. 66-76). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-833-0.ch005

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Lee, Jyh-An. "Filtering Online Content in China." In Computer-Mediated Communication across Cultures: International Interactions in Online Environments, edited by Kirk St.Amant and Sigrid Kelsey, 66-76. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-833-0.ch005

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Abstract

This chapter focuses on the Internet filtering mechanism the Chinese government adopted in order to prevent individual users from accessing foreign online content. Based on the case of Internet filtering in China, the author argues that when citizens are regulated by code rather than by the law, they will experience and perceive such code-based controls as natural. From the Chinese case, it should also be noted that the Internet’s effects on politics varies depending upon how its architecture is designed.

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