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1984+美丽新世界审查的悖论|The Censorship Paradox: 1984 & Brave New World

这份研究资料通过在**中国顶尖高校**开展的实地实验，探讨了**互联网审查**对大学生信息获取和政治态度的影响。研究人员发现，尽管学生能通过工具绕过“**防火墙**”，但他们最初对海外新闻的**主动需求极低**，部分原因在于低估了不受审查信息的价值。实验表明，通过短期激励引导学生访问外国媒体，可以产生**持久的阅读习惯**，并显著提升他们对政治敏感事件的认知。这种接触不仅增强了学生对国内媒体审查的**不信任感**，还改变了他们对中外经济形势的看法。此外，虽然学生之间存在**信息共享**现象，但这种社交传播的范围有限，不足以让整个群体广泛获知被屏蔽的信息。|This research material explores the impact of internet censorship on college students' information acquisition and political attitudes through a field experiment conducted at top-tier universities in China. Researchers found that although students could bypass the "Great Firewall" using tools, their initial active demand for overseas news was extremely low, partly due to underestimating the value of uncensored information. The experiment indicates that guiding students to access foreign media through short-term incentives can foster lasting reading habits and significantly enhance their awareness of politically sensitive events. This exposure not only increased students' distrust of domestic media censorship but also altered their perceptions of the economic situations in China and abroad. Furthermore, although there is an information-sharing phenomenon among students, the scope of this social transmission is limited and insufficient to widely inform the entire group about blocked content.