Authoritarian Media, Propaganda, and Crisis

• In Event: Propaganda, Censorship and Information Control

Brief Overview

We examine how media coverage in China changed based on the efficacy of its pandemic crisis response using a combination of structural topic models and word embeddings to measure topical shifts and propaganda strategies, respectively.

Authors

• Patrick J Chester, University of California-San Diego

• Harris W Doshay, UC San Diego

• Yanchuan Liu, University of California-San Diego