Assessing censorship on microblogs in China: Discriminatory keyword analysis and the real-name registration policy

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 42-50

  Fu, King Wa ^a   Chan, Chung Hong ^a   Chau, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

China; Internet censorship; microblogging; Real Name Registration; Weibo

Indexed keywords

CHINA; INTERNET CENSORSHIP; MICROBLOGGING; REAL-NAME REGISTRATION; WEIBO;

INTERNET;

EID: 84874760778     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2013.28     Document Type: Article

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