Xu Xu
Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University http://xu-xu.net
- Why do authoritarian states charge political opponents with non-political crimes? In our @thejop.bsky.social paper with Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we examine how *Disguised Repression* undermines opponents’ moral authority and mobilization capacity. doi.org/10.1086/7342...
- How has digital media transformed authoritarian propaganda? In our new @ajpseditor.bsky.social paper with Yingdan Lu, Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we proposed a *decentralized propaganda* model and empirically demonstrate its existence on Douyin: doi.org/10.1111/ajps... 🧵
- 2/ In the digital media era, top-down propaganda struggles to reach fragmented audiences. Analyzing 5M+ Douyin videos from 18K+ regime-affiliated accounts, we find propaganda has been *decentralized* to numerous local producers, e.g. local media, firefighters, civil servants.
