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Mar 20, 2019 · The Wenzhou train crash was the Weibo generation’s coming-out party to the world, showing how, far from being cowed and brainwashed by years of Communist propaganda, young Chinese citizens were...
- James Griffiths
Weibo’s Free-Speech Failure. How a dissident movement almost...
- James Griffiths
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 · Social media platforms have become a significant participant in China’s politics, culture and society. As Rauchfleisch and Schäfer (2015) noted, China has established its own microcosm of social media. Launched in 2009, Weibo (Sina Weibo) is a leading and largest microblogging site in China.
- Shixin Ivy Zhang
- Shixin.zhang@nottingham.edu.cn
- 2020
Jun 12, 2022 · This specific Weibo post draws a comparison between political lessons, history lessons, and CCTV (China Central Television) news, saying that they are “along the same lines” and do not inspire independent or critical thinking in students.
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The author would like to thank Amber Ziye Wang for her help researching this paper. He’d also like to thank Richard McGregor, Peter Cai and Alex Joske for their comments, which greatly improved the final product. He’s also immensely grateful to my colleagues at ASPI, Danielle Cave, Fergus Hanson and Michael Shoebridge, for their crucial assistance.
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Weibo, also known as Sina Weibo, is a Chinese mainstream microblogging service. Launched in 2009 by Sina.com, one of the country’s leading technology companies, Weibo has become a prime model for social media platforms in China.
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Jun 25, 2020 · This paper delineates the historical evolution of Weibo as a social media platform (2009–2019). Rather than focusing on individual case event, we showcase how Weibo is enveloped by and also mutually shapes the push-and-pull forces of the platform’s commodification, political control and the Chinese internet ecology writ large.
