Jennifer Pan studied clickbait in Chinese propaganda. You won’t believe what she discovered!
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week on Sinica, we present the first installment in a three-part series produced in collaboration with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), highlighting the groundbreaking work of young social scientists who are focused on China. In this episode, Kaiser chats with Jennifer Pan, an assistant professor of communication at Stanford, about three of her research papers that illuminate different aspects of social control in the P.R.C.: the use of the dibao social welfare system, hiring decisions, and the use of clickbait headlines by government officials on social media.
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Kaiser: Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History, by Kurt Andersen.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cynica podcast with the discussion of current affairs in China produced in partnership with SubChina. |
| 0:14.7 | SubChina is simply the best way there is to keep on top of all the important news coming out of China, especially if you subscribe to our daily |
| 0:21.1 | email newsletter, SubChina Access. Visit subchina.com also to check out our wide range of reported |
| 0:28.2 | pieces, op-eds, videos, and of course, podcasts. It's a feast of business, political, and cultural |
| 0:34.9 | news about a nation that is reshaping the world. |
| 0:38.7 | I'm Kaiser Guo, and today's show is produced in collaboration with the Social Science Research |
| 0:42.9 | Council, the SSRC. It's part of a series of three shows that Cynica and SSRC are co-producing, |
| 0:48.8 | which will all highlight the groundbreaking work of young social scientists working on China. |
| 0:54.8 | Today's guest certainly has been doing some amazing groundbreaking social science research. |
| 0:59.2 | I am thrilled to be joined by Jennifer Pan. |
| 1:01.8 | Jen is assistant professor of communication at Stanford University, and like many of our listeners, |
| 1:06.6 | I've been following her work for many, many years now. |
| 1:09.2 | She first came to my attention in 2013 for a paper she co-authored with the well-known Harvard political scientist Gary King, who's sort of the king, as it were, of statistical studies of political science, and with Margaret Roberts, who listeners will know from her previous appearance not so very long ago here on Cynica. |
| 1:26.9 | That paper, which many of us know as |
| 1:28.9 | King Pan Roberts or just KPR, was a pioneering study of how internet censorship in China |
| 1:34.9 | actually works. Molly Roberts, of course, went on to write a book about censorship called Censored, |
| 1:40.4 | which we've talked about, and which I encourage you to check out if you haven't already, |
| 1:43.8 | both the book and the show. |
| 1:45.7 | Jen, meanwhile, has also continued to work on issues related to the way that China's leadership |
| 1:50.2 | shapes narratives and public opinion, doing some of the most interesting social science |
| 1:55.2 | research on China that I have come across. |
| 1:57.0 | So Jennifer Pan, welcome to Seneca. |
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