The Impact of Media Censorship: 1984 or Brave New World?

Media censorship is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. We conduct a field experiment in China to measure the effects of providing citizens with access to an uncensored internet. We track subjects’ media consumption, beliefs regarding the media, economic beliefs, political attitudes, and behaviors over 18 months. We find four main results: (i) free access alone does not induce subjects to acquire politically sensitive information; (ii) temporary encouragement leads to a persistent increase in acquisition, indicating that demand is not permanently low; (iii) acquisition brings broad, substantial, and persistent changes to knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and intended behaviors; and (iv) social transmission of information is statistically significant but small in magnitude. We calibrate a simple model to show that the combination of low demand for uncensored information and the moderate social transmission means China’s censorship apparatus may remain robust to a large number of citizens receiving access to an uncensored internet. (JEL C93, D72, D83, L82, L86, L88, P36)

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Data in a Brave New World: Reducing Isolation to Amplify the Impact of Educational Research on Practice

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education ◽

10.5951/jresematheduc.49.2.0118 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 49 (2) ◽

pp. 118-124 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jinfa Cai ◽

Anne Morris ◽

Charles Hohensee ◽

Stephen Hwang ◽

Victoria Robison ◽

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Keyword(s):

New World ◽

Learning Opportunities ◽

Learning Goals ◽

Necessary Condition ◽

Critical Feature ◽

Incentive Structures ◽

Teacher Researcher ◽

Brave New World ◽

The Impact ◽

Specific Learning

In our November 2017 editorial (Cai et al., 2017), we presented a vision of a future in which research has a significant impact on practice. In the world we described, researchers and teachers work together, sharing similar goals and incentive structures. A critical feature of this brave new world is the existence of an online professional knowledge base comprising “useful findings and artifacts that are continuously refined over time, indexed by specific learning goals and subgoals, and that assist teachers and researchers in implementing learning opportunities in their classrooms” (p. 469). Moreover, we argued that teacher—researcher partnerships are a necessary condition for greater impact on practice.

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A brave new world: The impact of domestic and international regulation on money laundering prevention in the UK

Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance ◽

10.1108/13581980310810453 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 138-145 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Antony Whitehouse

Keyword(s):

Money Laundering ◽

New World ◽

International Regulation ◽

Brave New World ◽

The Uk ◽

The Impact

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Museums at the Crossroads: Between Digitality, Reality, and COVID-19

10.31235/osf.io/2g567 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Tula Giannini ◽

Jonathan P. Bowen

Keyword(s):

Performing Arts ◽

New World ◽

Daily Routine ◽

The Public ◽

Public Square ◽

Work From Home ◽

The Arts ◽

Life Itself ◽

Brave New World ◽

The Impact

When Covid-19 rushed into our lives, it sent shockwaves across the globe – suddenly we faced “lockdown” – we said goodbye to the way it was but did not understand what this brave new world of isolation and separation would mean and how it would the impact life as we knew it – our identity, relationships and freedoms we enjoyed, and wondered what daily routine post-Covid-19 would look like, while the experiences defining life itself were up for grabs. With social distancing, masks and work from home mandates, the arts and performing arts from theatres, museums, galleries and the public square were shuttered – their very existence challenged and spiralling out of control as staff were laid-off, exhibitions cancelled while concurrently creating an urgency to go online to dwell in cyberspace, the new daily destination.

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Open-Source tools: Incidence in the wireless security of the Technical University of Babahoyo

Journal of Science and Research Revista Ciencia e Investigación ◽

10.26910/issn.2528-8083vol3isscitt2017.2018pp56-60 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (CITT2017) ◽

pp. 56-60

Author(s):

Joffre León-Acurio ◽

Alfredo Vite ◽

Carlos Sisa ◽

Luis Bastidas Zambrano ◽

Alex Santamaría Philco

Keyword(s):

Computer Security ◽

Open Source ◽

Low Cost ◽

Positive Influence ◽

Wireless Security ◽

Free Access ◽

Sensitive Information ◽

Related Development ◽

Technical University ◽

The Impact

Computer security is a fundamental part of an organization, especially in Higher Education institutions, where there is very sensitive information, capable of being vulnerable by diffeerent methods of intrusion, the most common being free access through wireless points. The main objective of this research is to analyze the impact of the open source tools in charge of managing the security information of the wireless network, such as OSSIM, a set of active and passive components used to manage events that generate tra c within the network. net. This research exposes the use of free software as a viable option of low cost to solve the problems that a ict student sta , such as lack of access to academic services, problems of wireless interconnectivity, with the purpose to restore confidence in students in the Use of the services offered by the institution for research-related development, guaranteeing free and free access to the internet. The level of dissatisfaction on the part of the students con rms the problem presented at the Technical University of Babahoyo, thus confirming the positive influence of the Open-Source tools for the institution’s wireless security.

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The Interplay Between Social Movements and Media: From Creative Ways to Grab Media Attention to Spreading Fake News

Transilvania ◽

10.51391/trva.2021.03.11. ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 76-82

Author(s):

Raluca Mureșan

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Movements ◽

Mass Media ◽

Civic Engagement ◽

Fake News ◽

Communication Tools ◽

Transmission Of Information ◽

Massive Change ◽

The Media ◽

The Impact

Throughout this study we have attempted to identify how the media approached the protests from the period 2017-2019, protests which showed a massive change for the better concerning Romanian civic engagement and shaped a culture of protest characterized by a highly creative and humorful approach. In order to attract the attention of mass-media and to maximize the impact of their actions, protesters made use of modern communication tools and resorted to intricate choreographies and symbols. Social media played an important role in the organization and promotion of the protests, facilitating the transmission of information and acting like a catalyst of the popular discontent.

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Feminist Politics of Emotions and Critical Digital Pedagogies: A Call to Action

PMLA ◽

10.1632/pmla.2015.130.5.1489 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 130 (5) ◽

pp. 1489-1496 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Megan Boler

Keyword(s):

New World ◽

Call To Action ◽

The Public ◽

Daily Show ◽

Feminist Politics ◽

Public Crisis ◽

Crisis Of Faith ◽

Sources Of Authority ◽

The Media ◽

Brave New World

Emotions, and truths, are in crisis. in 2005, halfway through the stunning legacy of the bush-cheney-rumsfeld trifecta, stephen colbert kicked off the debut of The Colbert Report and his parodic critique of mendacious politicians and news outlets like Fox by popularizing the notion of “truthiness.” Welcome to the brave new world where felt truths replace facts! The concept of truthiness spread like wildfire, capturing the global zeitgeist. The public crisis of faith in traditionally trusted sources of authority reflects a profound skepticism experienced by many around the world besides discerning dissidents: all we are certain of is that truths proffered by governments, the media, and corporations are constructions (Boler, “Daily Show”; Boler with Turpin). But when we add to this mix the interests of corporate capitalism and science in designing citizens, can we even trust truthiness, what “I feel… to be true”? Or, as Samantha asks in the film Her, “Am I feeling these feelings? Are they mine? Or are they programmed?”

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The More Control, the Better?

Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications ◽

10.1027/1864-1105/a000114 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 81-91 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jeeyun Oh ◽

Mun-Young Chung ◽

Sangyong Han

Keyword(s):

Mixed Design ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Story Structure ◽

Content Type ◽

High User ◽

User Control ◽

Rigorous Research ◽

Control Versus ◽

The Media ◽

The Impact

Despite of the popularity of interactive movie trailers, rigorous research on one of the most apparent features of these interfaces – the level of user control – has been scarce. This study explored the effects of user control on users’ immersion and enjoyment of the movie trailers, moderated by the content type. We conducted a 2 (high user control versus low user control) × 2 (drama film trailer versus documentary film trailer) mixed-design factorial experiment. The results showed that the level of user control over movie trailer interfaces decreased users’ immersion when the trailer had an element of traditional story structure, such as a drama film trailer. Participants in the high user control condition answered that they were less fascinated with, absorbed in, focused on, mentally involved with, and emotionally affected by the movie trailer than participants in the low user control condition only with the drama movie trailer. The negative effects of user control on the level of immersion for the drama trailer translated into users’ enjoyment. The impact of user control over interfaces on immersion and enjoyment varies depending on the nature of the media content, which suggests a possible trade-off between the level of user control and entertainment outcomes.

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