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Feminism under censorship: the case of socialist China
Zhou Yang
Art der Arbeit
Masterarbeit
Universität
Universität Wien
Fakultät
Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften
Studiumsbezeichnung bzw. Universitätlehrgang (ULG)
Masterstudium Communication Science
Betreuer*in
Katharine Sarikakis
DOI
10.25365/thesis.48240
URN
urn:nbn:at:at-ubw:1-22775.00858.170754-2
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Abstracts
Abstract
(Deutsch)
Facts have shown that women’s status in China is not what the government claims to be. The Party-State, out of political and possibly cultural considerations, instructed the state media to paint the image of happy Chinese women to deter feminist movements and other collective action movements. The media landscape in China is highly controlled, where comprehensive censorship is in place to filter information that is deemed as sensitive or detrimental to public morals. Since women’s rights and freedom of expression are all on the agenda of human rights, Chinese women are experiencing simultaneous oppressions. Yet not many people, men and women, are aware of this calamity. This study investigates how do one’s trust in media (state and non-state) influence one’s perception on censorship and women’s status in China, controlling for political efficacy (internal and government) and demographics. An online survey was sent out to Chinese citizens, a total of 619 valid cases were collected. This study ran two ordinal logistic regressions and found that trust in state media is a significant positive predictor of one’s attitudes on censorship and women's status; whereas trust in non-state media has a negative relationship with one’s perception on censorship but no significant impact on one’s satisfaction on women’s status. Government efficacy is highly significant in explaining one’s approval of censorship and satisfaction on censorship.
Schlagwörter
Schlagwörter
(Deutsch)
Censorship Feminism Media Trust Government Efficacy
Autor*innen
Zhou Yang
Haupttitel (Englisch)
Feminism under censorship: the case of socialist China
Publikationsjahr
2017
Umfangsangabe
43 Seiten
Sprache
Englisch
Beurteiler*in
Katharine Sarikakis
Klassifikationen
05 Kommunikationswissenschaft > 05.20 Kommunikation und Gesellschaft ,
05 Kommunikationswissenschaft > 05.32 Öffentliche Meinung
AC Nummer
AC15082200
Utheses ID
42613
Studienkennzahl
UA | 066 | 550 | |