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- Title
<i>Weibo</i>, Framing, and Media Practices in China.
- Authors
Wang, Wilfred Yang
- Abstract
This study uses frames analysis to investigate online discourses and processes of political deliberation on China’s weibo (microblog) service. It offers a comparative analysis of competing discourses surrounding the case of Wang Yue, a toddler who was ran over by two motor vehicles in Foshan, following which 18 people passed by and ignored her plight. The study aims to understand how weibo facilitate its users to express their differences and deliberate disagreements with each other. The study found that Internet users are rational in the sense that they do not simply lean towards a dichotomised choice of ‘pro-’ or ‘anti-’ official discourse, but they are able to negotiate their moral choices by considering a wide range of social and political factors in such an emotional and morally controversial incident.
- Subjects
CHINA; WEIBO (Web resource); FRAMES (Social sciences); WANG Yue; INTERNET; MICROBLOGS; ONLINE social networks; PUBLIC communication; POLITICAL communication
- Publication
Journal of Chinese Political Science, 2013, Vol 18, Issue 4, p375
- ISSN
1080-6954
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1007/s11366-013-9261-3