Moving beyond traditional CCS communications studies and investigating the emergence of new communication mechanisms, it lays out the sequencing of communication channels that have different effects on China’s CCS adoption. Understanding the structure, functions and communication influences of the International CCS Community, this thesis reveals parallel sources of CCS-related information, diffusion networks that create developed-developing country partnerships, and western strategies to influence Chinese decision-making. 16 case studies were conducted based on 71 quantitative data sets from an online Communications Survey, 40 qualitative semi-structured interviews in ten Chinese cities and secondary data. On the basis of a desktop scoping study of CCS-related projects and events, 840 Chinese stakeholders from Chinese government departments and agencies, state-owned enterprises and private industry, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and universities were identified. This research challenges both theories by putting forward the proposition of a hybrid model of diffusion, which includes both centralised and decentralised elements. Conversely, other scholars like Donald Schön, believe in ‘decentralised’ diffusion, where innovations emerge from numerous local sources and evolve as they are diffused across horizontal networks. Even Rogers holds the view of a ‘centralised’ diffusion system, with expert sources using one-way communications to diffuse an innovation as a uniform package to relatively passive acceptors. Diffusionism has long been criticised as a form of elitist colonialism where linear channels are usually used to communicate pseudo-scientific arguments in order to influence a subject community. This research has advanced Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations theory. Key to this investigation is to understand how international entities can employ various types of communication channels to diffuse CCS-related information that may influence Chinese decision making. Additionally, it seeks to better understand the motivations and behaviours of the Chinese parties engaging in CCS-related activities and what this tells us about the current and future domestic development of the technologies.
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