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spir-13108	Wong, Jamie; Long, Vesper; Qu, Yilia; Jones, Graham	“MELON-EATING MASSES”: CONSUMER-CITIZENS AND PUBLIC INTERNET DISCOURSE IN CHINA	2023.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1246	104	57	By examining how Chinese internet users participate in public gossip when the state looms as the final arbiter of judgement, this study illuminates how the politics of “knowing what not to know” (Hillenbrand 2020) unfold in day-to-day (digital) lives in China. As Chinese internet users form “partial theories” about “relationships and events” (Van Vleet 2003) through public gossip, “melon-eating” can paradoxically normalize the unknowability of truth under an already-opaque governmental regime.	cache/spir-13108.pdf	txt/spir-13108.txt