Forum users' attitudes toward censorship of extreme nationalistic messages in China : a third-person effect perspective.

• Main Author: Zheng, Jiawen.
• Other Authors: Benjamin Hill Detenber
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media::Media effects; DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Culture::Chinese
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/18734
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The major goal of this article is to examine the influence of self-construals and Internet self-efficacy on the third-person effect, within the context of Chinese online nationalism. We conducted a web-based survey with 229 online forum users in China. This paper provides empirical data for these as...