Public Support for Censorship of Entertainment Media

• In Event: The Politics of Social Media and Censorship

Brief Overview

Research has often focused on public attitudes toward censorship of news content. Drawing on this literature, we shift focus and consider attitudes toward censorship of entertainment programs – and the implications of these attitudes for democracy.

Authors

• Alisa Egecioglu, University of Michigan

• Yanna Krupnikov, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

• John Barry Ryan, University of Michigan