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Sina Weibo, China’s microblogging answer to Twitter, has become one of the most popular sites in China’s cyberspace since its debut in 2009. Today, the microblog has about 140 million active users.1 Compared to noninteractive communication channels, Weibo and similar social networking sites have the potential to challenge China’s authoritarian rule.2 What follows are depictions […]
Feb 7, 2018 · The ideological contention also reflects the state has taken a firm standing on Weibo, and is able to steer public opinion, promoting discourses of nationalism and Weibo’s “positive” contribution to governance, but at the same time, it also sees Weibo as a major ideological threat to the legitimacy and stability of the regime, and takes further steps in cracking down contents and users ...
- Eileen Le Han
- 2018
Runfeng He has written one of the most comprehensive accounts ever undertaken of the ways the Chinese government has attempted to control Weibo, the micro-blogging site in China most akin to Twitter. According to official Chinese figures, Weibo reached an astonishing 331 million users in June 2013, but fell to 275 million a year later. Feng looks at several key questions about the popularity ...
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).
- Shixin Ivy Zhang
- Shixin.zhang@nottingham.edu.cn
- 2020
Dec 15, 2021 · Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter, has long been a prime target for stringent online censorship thanks to its broad audience base and ability to help influence public opinion. But in the eyes of ...
Mar 4, 2024 · The discrepancy shows how anti-elitism can have different mirrors in China. Liberalism or pluralism is not part of the vision of democracy for China on Weibo, which places greater emphasis on the establishment’s responsibilities. If the government can “take good care” of the majority, people may be willing to compromise on liberty.
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Jun 1, 2017 · Analyzing the relationship between social media and democratic politics in the unique context of China helps us to rethink a metamorphosis of Habermas’s public sphere model. The study supports the idea that the online public sphere more often than not transforms into a fragmentized formation of the multiple tensions between participatory democracy, journalism transformation and governmental ...
