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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 ...
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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
Mar 3, 2016 · The Jasmine Revolution [calls for peaceful pro-democracy protests across China] had just wound down. Not long after, in July, there was a high-speed rail crash in Wenzhou. A massive amount of ordinary users suddenly joined the discussion about this man-made disaster. The social impact Weibo abruptly generated caught the government off guard.
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.
May 29, 2018 · Weibo’s audience skews young (88% of Weibo users are under 33 years of age) and, after its most vocal liberal voices were purged, is now largely dominated by entertainment. 62 If the aim of foreign embassies on Weibo is to enhance soft power and to shift public opinion around to supporting their foreign policy positions, the Israeli Embassy Weibo account is exemplary.
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Mar 20, 2019 · Weibo was a major last stand for China’s inventive and obstreperous online dissidents, who threw everything they could at the censors, coming up with ingenious ways to get around the blocks and ...
