Matt DeButts
@debutts
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Fake it til you make it. Journalist, Comm PhD at @stanford. Formerly @stanfordhai @latimes @PKU1898 @AmherstCollege
Palo Alto, CA
Joined July 2010
RT @clairejiacries: my novel is out today. here I am, holding the last draft and the first draft, 10 years apart. thank you, thank you all….
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RT @YingdanL_kk: Excited to share our new @AJPS_Editor paper! We analyze 5M+ Douyin videos from 18K+ regime-affiliated accounts and show ho….
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The rise of social media in the digital era poses unprecedented challenges to authoritarian regimes that aim to influence public attitudes and behaviors. To address these challenges, we argue that...
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Timely research from my colleague and friend in Stanford political science @AliciaRrChen.
My first publication is now officially online at the BJPS!. I study how China uses development finance to cultivate influence in regional organizations, and show important variation by funding and recipient entities. 🧵 (1/4). Link:
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RT @EmilyZFeng: "It's made me much more proud and self-aware that I was born to parents who are Chinese. It's a language that I've worked r….
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In 2022, the Chinese government told NPR's Emily Feng she was no longer welcome in China, where she'd lived and reported from for seven years. She says she hasn't lost claim to her Chinese identity.
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RT @EmilyZFeng: DC peeps! I'm at Politics and Prose to discuss my new book on China, on March 27 at 7 PM. https:/….
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(5) Thanks in particular to @yangguobin and an anonymous reviewer for thought-provoking comments, and for all panelists at @icahdq Gold Coast for an enlivening discussion. We really enjoyed thinking through this piece and writing it together. Would love to hear feedback!.
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@CommPublicSAGE @jenjpan (4) We hope to see more inquiries into ~absence in addition to presence: how citizens might disengage from the internet, and what the consequences of disengagement might be. Did zero covid protests emerge because of the internet’s increased regulation, or despite of it? Neither?.
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@CommPublicSAGE @jenjpan (3) In a brief essay, we wonder what might happen if the Chinese govt’s success in regulating the internet becomes so thorough that the internet becomes like a fun house mirror, no longer representing public opinion as meaningfully as before — and therefore less useful to govt.
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@CommPublicSAGE @jenjpan (2) We argue that for 30 years, the internet has been useful to the govt in part because it (imperfectly) reflects public opinion. Citizens have used it, despite imperfections, because it allowed ppl to improve their lives and the lives of loved ones. But it may not always.
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(1) The Chinese internet has been vibrant for 30 years, but will it remain that way? In new issue of @CommPublicSAGE, @jenjpan and I explore “disengagement”: that surveillance, censorship, and disenchantment might lead Chinese citizens to disappear from the web (link at end).1/6.
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RT @dakekang: The Associated Press is looking for a news researcher in its Beijing bureau. Responsibilities include assisting with research….
careers.ap.org
Editorial Assistant (China News Assistant)
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Woof.
What an absolutely crazy story that @langfittnpr painstakingly unraveled here. Absolutely stop what you’re doing and have a read, or a listen. A big lesson for reporters, some of whom got duped: never assume anything. Verify everything.
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RT @ZhangTaisu: Seriously, which would be more of a geopolitical flex: China beating the US at a prestigious event they’ve dominated for th….
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RT @Kaiping_Chen: 🎆🧨Very excited to publish my essay "Computational methods in Chinese Internet studies -- An overview and looking ahead",….
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This essay offers a perspective of the evolution and current landscape of computational methods in Chinese Internet studies, paralleled with a personal academic...
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RT @susanjakes: Also recommend this essay Hessler wrote for @ChinaFile on the attacks on his reporting and on his integrity, from other Chi….
chinafile.com
In August, when I visited Wuhan, I met with a young building-company manager who had worked on the construction sites of various emergency clinics and quarantine facilities during the city’s
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RT @YingdanL_kk: 🚀 Excited to share that our #ICA24 preconference, The Future of Computational Message Science, was a great success yesterd….
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RT @PeterDellaPenna: Just met the most awesome USA fan, Chuck, from Boynton Beach just outside Fort Lauderdale. Has never seen cricket in h….
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RT @Ross_Dahlke: 📰 personal update: I'm so happy to say I've accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at @UWMadison @uw_sjmc for nex….
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RT @clairejiacries: ten years ago I started writing something about Beijing, and love, and friendship, and what it is we really want out of….
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