Sending Signals and Launching Soft Propaganda: The Chinese Government’s Twitter Accounts' Real Influence

• In Event: Digital Governance, Regulation of Technology, and Surveillance in Authoritarian China

Brief Overview

This study illustrates that the Chinese government’s Twitter accounts serve the role of sending signals to their opponents whenever international disputes happen, even if the tweets merely positively display their friendships with other nations.

Author

• Shu-An Tsai, University at Buffalo