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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 · Chinese populists on Weibo seek to engage with the authorities and change policies but also vent their nationalist rage, while populists on Twitter seek to introduce or restore democracy on behalf of the people, with the people including not just Chinese but those across the world.
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
Oct 29, 2020 · However, ‘whether social media such as Weibo is serving as a tool for democracy in China still require further observation.’ (Jiang, Y. 2014b). As for the social impact, social media in China demonstrates strong participatory, connective, and self-reflexive characteristics (Wu & Montgomery, 2019).
- Shixin Ivy Zhang
- Shixin.zhang@nottingham.edu.cn
- 2020
Moreover, WeChat and Weibo, the two dominant social media platforms in China, have facilitated the circulation of information about life and politics in foreign countries. Empirical research suggest that increased knowledge about democratic countries could undermine official propaganda and facilitate the rise of pro-democracy atti-
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Sep 28, 2016 · In fact, evidence of such a perception of Weibo’s uniqueness has been found in the views of Weibo administrators and its elite users as they believe that the product cannot be replicated in other societies, especially those with well-established democracy.
