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Without a doubt, Weibo is making changes to China, but whether these changes democratize China is yet to be seen. Can Weibo be defined as a civil society in today’s China, or will at least it lead Chinese people to a civil society?
Mar 4, 2024 · The destructive–constructive and populist–ultranationalist dimensions have Weibo engaging in constructive topics such as “accountability” and “corruption” of government elites, while Twitter involves constructive topics around “democracy”, “liberal democracy”, and “human rights”.
4 hours ago · On microblogging site Weibo, a popular quip goes: “The country is so divided, they might as well break into US-A and US-B.” Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump.
Feng looks at several key questions about the popularity and then decline of Weibo, including the key questions of how the Chinese government has responded to its success. He asks what general and detailed measures the Chinese government has adopted to manage Weibo, and whether the Chinese government has modified its public opinion management ...
Feb 7, 2018 · As this study shows, over its 8 years of operation, Weibo has gone through three major stages to date: collective witness, ideological contention, and networks of expertise. Each of these three stages represents a distinctive mode of online public participation.
- Eileen Le Han
- 2018
Jun 1, 2017 · Many PR companies forge big V’s (verified Weibo opinion leaders who usually have more than 500,000 followers) accounts to direct online sentiment for their own interests, causing disorder of online democracy.
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Oct 29, 2020 · Weibo’s political impacts are mainly manifested in three aspects: e-governance, public opinion formation, and democracy. E-governance refers to ‘the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for delivering government services and exchanging information between the government and citizens’ (Zhang & Guo, 2019 ).