More Than Plain Text: Censorship Deletion in The Chinese Social Media

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More Than Plain Text : Censorship Deletion in The Chinese Social Media. / Liu, Jun; Zhao, Jingyi.

In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 72, No. 1, 2021, p. 18-31.

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Harvard

Liu, J & Zhao, J 2021, 'More Than Plain Text: Censorship Deletion in The Chinese Social Media', Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 18-31. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24390

APA

Liu, J., & Zhao, J. (2021). More Than Plain Text: Censorship Deletion in The Chinese Social Media. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(1), 18-31. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24390

Vancouver

Liu J, Zhao J. More Than Plain Text: Censorship Deletion in The Chinese Social Media. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 2021;72(1):18-31. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24390

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Liu, Jun ; Zhao, Jingyi. / More Than Plain Text : Censorship Deletion in The Chinese Social Media. In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 2021 ; Vol. 72, No. 1. pp. 18-31.

Bibtex

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