Hannah Bailey studied for an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute. Research interests include China-US relations and China’s use of online censorship, with a focus on automated content analysis.
Hannah Bailey
DPhil Student
Profile
Hannah Bailey is a student on the DPhil in Social Data Science, and was previously a student on the MSc in Social Science of the Internet.
Hannah is a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute and a researcher at the Computational Propaganda Project. Her research focuses on China’s use of state-sponsored digital disinformation. In particular, she focusses on the effect of China’s digital disinformation campaigns on international audiences by assessing how they interact with this disinformation. She employs both quantitative text analysis and social network analysis to explore, for example, China’s use of bots and the ways that external audiences engage with these bots. She holds a BSc in Politics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics, as well as two MScs, in Contemporary Chinese Studies, and in the Social Science of the Internet, both from Oxford University. She has also studied Mandarin at Fudan University (Shanghai). Her DPhil is generously funded by the Oxford Internet Institute’s Shirley Scholarship.
Research
Current projects
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Alternative News Networks – Understanding the spread and influence of disinformation, propaganda, and divisive political news content in the UK online information ecosystem
Participants: Dr Jonathan Bright, Professor Philip Howard, Dr Scott Hale, Hannah Bailey, Mona Elswah, Megha Mishra, Dr Vidya Narayanan, Marcel Schliebs, Christian Schwieter, Katarina Rebello, Ali Arsalan Pasha Siddiqui, Karolina Werens, Alexandra Pavliuc, Anna George
This project seeks to understand the health of the UK online information ecosystem, including tracking the spread of divisive and misleading content.
News
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Social media manipulation by political actors now an industrial scale problem prevalent in over 80 countries – annual Oxford report
13 January 2021
The manipulation of public opinion through social media remains a growing threat to democracies around the world, according to the 2020 media manipulation survey from the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford.
Press
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China’s pressure and propaganda – the reality of reporting Xinjiang
15 January 2021 BBC News
In addition to the heavy restrictions it places on foreign journalists trying to report the truth about its far western region of Xinjiang, China has a new tactic: labelling independent coverage as "fake news".
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Trump’s Twitter ban obscures the real problem: state-backed manipulation is rampant on social media
13 January 2021 The Conversation
Donald Trump’s controversial removal from social media platforms has reignited debate around the censorship of information published online.
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Beijing funds British YouTubers to further its propaganda war
9 January 2021 The Times
The Chinese government is funding British YouTube stars to produce pro-China propaganda videos, an investigation by The Times can reveal.
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Google takes down smartphone service targeting Chinese apps
2 June 2020 The Financial Times
Google intervened on Tuesday after millions of Indians rushed to download Remove China Apps that promised to help them rid their smartphones of Chinese apps.