The Fabricated Hotspots: A Study on the Selective Information Manipulation Strategies of Chinese Social Media

• In Event: Political Communication in Authoritarian Contexts

Brief Overview

This study analyzes 939,100 Weibo hot search entries to reveal China’s dual strategy of information control: “Strategic Disappearance” of military events and “Strategic Amplification” of diversions for public mobilization.

Authors

• Wei Hua Wesley Chen, Central Police University, R.O.C(Taiwan)

• Nung-Yao Lin, National Taiwan University