论文标题
我们如何自由地表达自己：中国社交媒体上的审查，自我审查和反审查
How We Express Ourselves Freely: Censorship, Self-censorship, and Anti-censorship on a Chinese Social Media
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论文摘要
专制政权的审查，反审查和自我审查制度已经广泛研究，但是这些相互交织的因素之间的关系尚不清楚。在本文中，我们报告了一项大规模调查研究（n = 526）的结果，西纳微博用户可以弥合这一研究差距。通过描述性统计数据，相关分析和回归分析，我们发现了如何审查用户，他们如何以及为何在不同的主题和不同的情况下进行自我审查（即，帖子，repost和评论）及其各种反审查策略。我们进一步确定了审查制度和自我审查的指标，找到影响因素，并构建一个调解模型来衡量其关系。根据这些发现，我们讨论了对民主社会媒体设计和未来审查研究的影响。
Censorship, anti-censorship, and self-censorship in an authoritarian regime have been extensively studies, yet the relationship between these intertwined factors is not well understood. In this paper, we report results of a large-scale survey study (N = 526) with Sina Weibo users toward bridging this research gap. Through descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and regression analysis, we uncover how users are being censored, how and why they conduct self-censorship on different topics and in different scenarios (i.e., post, repost, and comment), and their various anti-censorship strategies. We further identify the metrics of censorship and self-censorship, find the influence factors, and construct a mediation model to measure their relationship. Based on these findings, we discuss implications for democratic social media design and future censorship research.
