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The case of July 23, 2011, Wenzhou train collision is a good example of Weibo in action. Two high-speed trains collided in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province. The crash was widely reported by eyewitnesses via Weibo until Internet censors blocked the site.
Feb 7, 2018 · For the second one, by summarizing major public events (mostly disasters and scandals) in the past year (2011) that Weibo was deeply involved—including the Wenzhou High-Speed Train accident that killed 40 people in July, the scandals of fake imported formula, and a series of school bus accidents in rural China, and so on—it views Weibo as a ...
- Eileen Le Han
- 2018
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...
Aug 14, 2016 · When China sufferes the first fatal crash on its new bullet train network, in which 40 people die, Weibo gets its first test of being a major media outlet at a time of tragedy.
Aug 1, 2011 · An examination of the Wenzhou high-speed rail crash and its implications for Sina Weibo, China's biggest microblogging service.
Mar 7, 2021 · The role of Weibo in this contestation over the control of the Wenzhou Train Crash story was a dominant factor, among others, in leading to the Chinese government’s subsequent crackdown on and increased surveillance of social media (Feng 2013; Yuan and Han 2013; Griffiths 2019).
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Aug 4, 2011 · After two weeks of personally following the events, browsing Weibo (Chinese blog domain) and China-watch sites, something began to appear more clearly than the alleged “obvious” flaws in an authoritarian system: this accident, while being an accident, is one of this generation’s defining events.
