Dissertation
PERCEIVED INTERNET ACCESS IN CHINA AND GROUP CATEGORIZATION OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE: A TEST OF SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
2023
Abstract
This study sheds light on a new perspective of the social impact of Chinese Internet censorship that how people outside of China perceive Chinese due to the limited Internet access. The study conducts a survey to examine the awareness of Chinese Internet censorship among US college students. Guided by the social identity approach, the survey predicts the readiness of social identity of being a certain social media platform user and outlines how identity readiness, ingroup similarity, and outgroup difference are associated with US college students’ categorization of others based on social media use. On the one hand, the study establishes a theoretical model for group identification based on media use, on the other hand, it discusses the practical impact of Internet censorship and access in the real world.
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- Title
- PERCEIVED INTERNET ACCESS IN CHINA AND GROUP CATEGORIZATION OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE: A TEST OF SOCIAL IDENTITY THEORY
- Creators
- yezi hu
- Contributors
- Alexis Tan (Advisor)Stacey Hust (Committee Member)Yoon-Joo Lee (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Edward R. Murrow College of Communication
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 81
- Identifiers
- 99901394296401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation