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Mobile internet’s effects on political participation

By Peijun YangDecember 6th, 2018in Blog

The arrival of the mobile internet era is an innovation of citizens’ participation methods in politics. In the mobile internet environment, citizen’s political participation is an extension of online political participation on the mobile internet, and it is a new form of traditional political participation in the mobile internet era. More

Is it counter-intuitive? Fact-checking and Fake News

By Han BaoDecember 3rd, 2018in Blog

Social media has become a popular source of political information for internet users. At the same time, fake news creators view the platform as conducive because of its low-cost model and ease of access. Many scholars like Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow also argued that people on social networking sites... More