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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 […]
Sep 13, 2021 · A second connotation of trust in relation to social media refers to trust in the larger ecology of internet service providers (in China, 263.net and China Telecom, for example), social media businesses (Sina Weibo, Tencent, People’s Net and Xinhua Net, for instance) and regulatory agencies that govern privacy and safety of transactions (in China a myriad of bodies, including Central Leading ...
- Vincent Homburg, Rebecca Moody
- 2021
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 in the social media era.
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
Mar 30, 2017 · Sina Weibo was initially a Chinese Twitter but later started to incorporate more Facebook-like social features. Footnote 2 Weibo is the only vibrant micro-blogging platform nowadays in China, with 175.7 million monthly active users. Footnote 3 Baidu Tieba is a BBS-like chat forum with an average of 50 million new posts posted per day.
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).
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