Real-world Islands in a Social Media Sea: Nationalism and Censorship on Weibo during the 2012 Diaoyu/Senkaku Crisis

China Quarterly

Volumn 225, Issue , 2016, Pages 23-49

  Cairns, Christopher ^a   Carlson, Allen ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

censorship; China; Diaoyu Islands; Japan; social media; Weibo: nationalism

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT; INTERNET; NATIONALISM; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; SOCIAL MEDIA; TERRITORIAL DISPUTE;

CHINA; EAST CHINA SEA; JAPAN; OKINAWA [RYUKYU ISLANDS]; RYUKYU ISLANDS; SENKAKU ISLANDS;

EID: 84960504356     PISSN: 03057410     EISSN: 14682648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305741015001708     Document Type: Article

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