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Resisting censorship: how citizens navigate closed media environments

dc.contributor.coauthorBehrouzian, G.
dc.contributor.coauthorNisbet, E. C.
dc.contributor.coauthorDal, A.
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of International Relations
dc.contributor.kuauthorÇarkoğlu, Ali
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteCollege of Administrative Sciences and Economics
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-09T12:26:10Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractWhy do citizens seek alternative online information sources in censored mass media environments? How do they react to perceived media censorship? Drawing on psychological reactance and work in comparative democratization, we propose a new communication construct called motivated resistance to censorship, which assesses cognitive and affective reactions to perceived censorship and, in turn, predicts online information seeking as a mitigation strategy. We evaluate our proposed construct based on two survey studies in Turkey including a national face-to-face household survey of Turkish respondents (N = 1,161) and a second survey of Turkish Internet users (N = 2,002). Our results validate the central propositions of our model. We discuss the contributions of adopting reactance theory to better understand citizen responses to media censorship and future directions for research.
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dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.description.sponsorshipOhio State University School of Communication
dc.description.sponsorshipKoç University
dc.description.versionPublisher version
dc.description.volume10
dc.identifier.eissn1932-8036
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dc.identifier.filenameinventorynoIR00443
dc.identifier.issn1932-8036
dc.identifier.linkhttps://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4891/1772
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/1659
dc.identifier.wos391037000001
dc.keywordsPsychological reactance scale
dc.keywordsPolitical information
dc.keywordsMultilevel model
dc.keywordsInternet use
dc.keywordsGratifications
dc.keywordsCommunication
dc.keywordsParticipation
dc.keywordsConsequences
dc.keywordsAttitudes
dc.keywordsDemocracy
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication _ Journalism
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Communication
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dc.subjectPolitical science
dc.titleResisting censorship: how citizens navigate closed media environments
dc.typeJournal Article
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