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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Sina Weibo"”.
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Sina Weibo and its political implications: a case study of the Zhou Yongkang incident
… invented alternative social media platforms. Sina Weibo is one of them. Scholars studying the Internet and social media in Western countries have suggested that social media have the potential to construct a unique online public sphere and contribute to a much deeper social change. However, …
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Nationalism and social media in China: a case study of Chinese nationalist movement against Muslim minorities on Sina Weibo
… provides a case study of the Han nationalism on Sina Weibo which attacks Muslim minorities and current official ethnic policies. This thesis mainly uses Melucci’s (1996) framework of collective identity process to analyse this movement, discussing how the national identity and definition of …
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Understanding and circumventing censorship on Chinese social media
… users have the local replicas such as WeChat and Sina Weibo to communicate with others. However, these sites employ both advanced keyword detection algorithms and human censors to filter any kind of inappropriate content. While previous research has explored the technology behind the censorship …
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Internet Slang and China's Social Culture: A Case Study of Internet Users in Guiyang
… and a corpus of data collected on the Sina Weibo microblog, I found that Internet slang serves the function not only of entertaining through humorous wordplay, but also of expressing complex feelings of social dissatisfaction. It is this emotional content that contributes to the spread …
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Reproductive Uncertainty: A sociological study of egg freezing governance in China
… Jinglei Xu posted her egg freezing stories on Sina Weibo in 2015, egg freezing regulation in China has attracted continuous public attention. The thesis contextualizes the policy-making of egg freezing in China within the Chinese modernization process. The main focus of this thesis is to …