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Contested Chinese Dreams of AI? Public discourse about Artificial intelligence on WeChat and People’s Daily Online

Jing Zenga Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Chung-hong Chanb The Mannheim Centre for European Social Research, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, GermanyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6232-7530View further author information
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Mike S. Schäfera Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0847-7503View further author information
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Pages 319-340 | Received 03 Jul 2019, Accepted 17 May 2020, Published online: 12 Jun 2020

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