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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 […]
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.
Feb 7, 2018 · Later, with the official media’s presence and deep involvement in steering public opinion on Weibo, and the top official’s endorsement of “ziganwu,” they now have been as powerful and influential as “gongzhi,” attacking the pro-West ideas of democracy, constitutionalism, and press freedom, and the critical views about China’s political and social reality.
- 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
Jul 15, 2021 · In other words, the Weibo semantic network suggests that the narrative most likely to circulate on Weibo was that relating to the efforts of the Chinese government’s ‘prevention and control’ of the epidemic, ‘experts’ ‘suggest’ that the public should not ‘go out’, try to ‘stay home’ as much as possible, and wear ‘masks’ if they ‘go out’, to ‘resist’ viruses.
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Jul 31, 2012 · The country's biggest microblogging service, Sina Weibo, now has 300,000,000 registered users, and is growing fast. ... "If you want to write anything about opposition movement, about democracy ...
