Links and clicks: exporting Chinas influence through the web

• Autor(a) principal: Nunes, Maria Claudia Menezes Leal
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Texto Completo: https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/101/101131/tde-25112022-124535/
• topic: Ideologias; Ideology; Informação; Information; Noosfera; Noosphere; Securitização; Securitization; Soft power; Soft power

Since the Digital Revolution, the communication networks have become very advanced and sophisticated, leading to a contemporary abundance of information. This shift from a regime of information scarcity to information abundance was seen by many scholars as an inevitable liberation impulse for many nations living under oppressive regimes such as China. However, the democratic liberation never materialized. Instead, a regime of greater control manifested itself and symptoms of information control techniques have started to infect other parts of the global Internet. This study seeks to investigate how China ideologically protects its population while exporting its propaganda and methods of censorship through digital means in order to ideologically subvert their opponents. Utilizing securitization theory along with a new conceptualization of soft power and political information, the study presents contributions to the discussion of ideological security in terms of methods used, however also presents evidence of a general philosophical base to tackle these challenges.