{"id":3223,"date":"2024-04-17T16:44:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T08:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T06:37:12","slug":"social-media-in-authoritarian-states-a-platform-to-voice-dissidence-and-influence-social-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/onsc\/3223\/social-media-in-authoritarian-states-a-platform-to-voice-dissidence-and-influence-social-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media in authoritarian states: A platform to voice dissidence and influence social change"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAbstract: Traditionally, the role of the media in a democratic country is to serve as the fourth estate, where it acts as a watchdog on the government\u2019s power and as a spotlight on matters of public interest, (Butler, 2018). Yet, in authoritarian countries the mainstream media is often controlled by the state or dominated by heavy censorship and regulations. This usually means most critical commentary is aggressively suppressed. However, this essay will argue that social media has provided <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/onsc\/3223\/social-media-in-authoritarian-states-a-platform-to-voice-dissidence-and-influence-social-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: Traditionally, the role of the media in a democratic country is to serve as the fourth estate, where it acts as a watchdog on the government\u2019s power and as a spotlight on matters of public interest, (Butler, 2018). Yet, in authoritarian countries the mainstream media is often controlled by the state or dominated by heavy censorship and regulations. This usually means most critical commentary is aggressively suppressed. However, this essay will argue that social media has provided &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[560,563,558,562,559,564,561],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onsc","tag-authoritarianism","tag-cambodia","tag-censorship","tag-china","tag-freepress","tag-vietnam","tag-wemedia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}