Questions:What is the research question (in the field of International Relations) that you are interested in at this moment?

How would you design your research to answer this question?

The Future of Internet Policy in CHINA

I34024 IT-Huyang

An attempt Research Design in International Relations

4 Components of Research Design

Question

Use of Data

Theory

Data

“The Science in Social Science”, Chapter 1.2

Question

What’s the future of China’s Internet Policy?

Background

Block the access to certain foreign websites, to control the flow of information.

Great Fire Wall

Google’s Example2010, Google was no longer willing to self-censor search results as required by the Chinese Government.

 Google redirecting all Chinese search traffic to its Hong Kong servers.

Government’s censorship over the Internet using.

Theory

Questionnaire

Horizontal and Vertical Comparison

Quantitative Style

Qualitative Style

 No censorship

 Some censorship

 Under surveillance

 Heavy surveillance ("Internet black

holes")

Comparison

The survey will cover the comparison between some countries that also implement the internet policies.

Data

1

3'Anonymous' protests in Delhi against Internet censorship

2

Answers from questionnaire

Other countries’ situation

Change of policy over the world recent years

Use of Data

Data from the public questionnaire

most people’s opinions

policy direction

prediction

Government care about the public opinion

What is happening in other countries What happened as time by

China’s Globalization development

Hope my presentation can be little inspiring and helpful to catch the main point out of the assigned reading.

There must be mistakes and doubtful points that I failed to notice in my research design.I will be very appreciated if you can give me constructive suggestions and correct my mistakes.