The Legitimation of Media Regulation in China

Chin, Yik Chan

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“…However, Weibo as a private actor must align itself within the dominant political power structure. With the increasing installation of the procedural rule of law in Chinese governance (Chin, 2018), the regulatory authority has the formal authority for guidance, supervision and punishment, and the private actor will bear administrative and legal responsibilities if it fails to comply with the law.…”

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“…If Weibo fails to do so, it can face legal sanctions from regulators (Article 17, ibid.). These provisions institutionalise and legitimise the self-regulatory mechanism and set up the board norms that Weibo must enforce (see Chin, 2018). In 2021, Weibo updated its Weibo Community Convention and stressed that it has assumed the platform's responsibilities following relevant laws and administrative regulations of authorities.…”

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“…Although China's internet governance system has often been defined as paternalistic (O'Hara & Hall, 2020), fresh evidence of participatory elements in governance in China has been found (Chin, 2020, 2022; Cai & Wang, 2022; Ma & DeDeo, 2018; Wang et al, 2020). Governance in China is increasingly guided by the state‐led multiactor social participation principle and the slow implementation of legal rationality and rule by law in its regulatory regime (Chin, 2018, 2020, 2022). The president of China, Xi Jinping, has advocated that China ‘form an integrated cyber governance model featured by party committee‐led, government‐managed, corporation responsible, social supervised and netizen self‐disciplined multiactor structure […] (State Council, 2018).…”

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“…In fact, the legal‐rationality efforts of incorporating certain elements of the procedural rule of law, such as fairness, public participation and openness in decision‐making, are used as important sources to improve the capacity of regulatory authorities in both Western societies and China despite their different forms of government, political arrangements and community values (Chin, 2018).…”

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A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms

Chin

Park

2022

Policy & Internet

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False information has become a profound issue of the Internet governance partly because of its serious impact on the political elections and public daily information flows. Different countries and social media platforms have adopted divergent approaches in handling false information. This study conducts a comparative study of the governance models of social media platforms in the United States and China over false Information from the perspectives of the balance of governance mechanism, that is, the balance between self‐regulation, external regulation and coregulation. It explores the laws, regulations and rules of falseinformation in two countries, exams social media platform's regulatory mechanism, focusing on comparison of Weibo and Facebook. The research shows that to increase transparency and accountability, both Weibo and Facebook have devoted certain governance power and responsibilities to internal or external intermediaries. This may induce two negative implications: accountability of the external actors and reduction of platform's supervisory obligations. The paper concludes by arguing that having a more effective, accountable and inclusive governance of false information in social media platforms, we not only need to find a balance between the functions and power of different stakeholders in governance but also need to seek a delicate balance between the three regulatory models of social media falseinformation governance.

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2022

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“…Studies of media diversity in authoritarian countries have shown the rise of commercial and semi-commercial new media and social media containing much less political indoctrination and much more diversity in sociopolitical opinions [, , 43, 47, 88]. This growth challenges not only the media structure but also the monopoly of the state media [, , 14,18,80]. The state media has also demonstrated great enthusiasm for stepping into the new media arena in order to assert the government's power and dominance in the new era [, , , 59, 62, 68, 73].…”

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What Drives Chinese Internet Users to Watch State-Media Broadcasts? An Audience Analysis

Shao

2021

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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This study investigates the audience of state-media broadcasts (SMBs) among Chinese Internet users-a missing link for understanding political communications in the high-choice media environment of modern countries. Using a "least likely case" strategy and a nationwide online survey, we created an audience profile of contemporary viewers among Chinese Internet users of Xinwen Lianbo (XWLB), the primary SMB program in China. We further examined the motivations driving viewers to watch the program, finding that external factors, such as media inequality, historical inertia, and family bundling, do not greatly alter people's watching behaviors. Instead, internal motivations, such as the pursuit of authentic information and psychological gratification, significantly increase the frequency with which viewers watch XWLB. These effects remain robust even after controlling for potential model biases and political desirability. Keywords State Media • Active Audience • Political Communication • Xinwen Lianbo • ChinaState-media broadcasts (SMBs), i.e., public news programs produced by government-owned media companies, play an indispensable role in government-to-citizen communications in modern countries. SMBs are the mouthpiece of the government and the primary platform for rulers to exhibit their achievements and promote the * Zijie Shao

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Supreme Leaders, Provincial Leaders, and Factional Competition in China’s Anti-Corruption Enforcement: Regional- and City-Level Evidence

Liu

2021

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The Legitimation of Media Regulation in China

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms

A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms

What Drives Chinese Internet Users to Watch State-Media Broadcasts? An Audience Analysis

Supreme Leaders, Provincial Leaders, and Factional Competition in China’s Anti-Corruption Enforcement: Regional- and City-Level Evidence

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