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- 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 of how this microblogging technology is being used in China as a source of news, as a tool for combating corruption, and as an incubator of social movements.
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Feb 7, 2018 · Weibo has been evolving alongside the Chinese Internet culture and the changing social circumstances, contributing to the formation of Chinese networked publics.
- Eileen Le Han
- 2018
Jul 16, 2012 · Sina Weibo is China's equivalent of Twitter, boasting at least 300 million users who are using the microblogging site to change lives and promote social activism in China.
Mar 26, 2020 · Weibo has a powerful ability, due to its large sample size, to study and track sentiment, affective states, online behaviours, and communications within the Chinese socio-cultural context. In 2014 Weibo released an official and free API for its raw data, a practical (and English) step-by-step guide to using the API is available here.
Jul 31, 2012 · The boom in China's social media is forcing the country to open up, but critics argue it is a poor replacement for real change.
Oct 29, 2020 · In this chapter, I started with mapping China’s social media ecology with a focus on the contradiction of fast growth of social media industry and political constraints, and discussed Weibo’s technical features, usability, comment culture, censorship practice and its political and social impacts.
- Shixin Ivy Zhang
- Shixin.zhang@nottingham.edu.cn
- 2020
Weibo is considered to be the Chinese media phenomenon of 2010 and 2011. This paper provides a brief historical overview of microblogging in China and identifies the social and cultural roles held by Sina Weibo, a multimedia-enabled Weibo website.
Jul 15, 2021 · Our findings show that at the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic in China and in the West, Weibo and Twitter played very different roles as participatory platforms embedded in different sociocultural contexts.
