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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Weibo"”.
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Weibo Addiction in China: An Examination of the Relationships among Expected Outcomes, Weibo Usage, Deficient Self-regulation, and Weibo Addiction
Weibo is a type of social network service in China. This study focuses on Weibo addiction in China and investigates the relationships among expected outcomes of Weibo use, deficient self-regulation, Weibo usage and Weibo addiction. Social cognitive theory was applied as the guiding theoretical …
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Participatory Democracy in the Chinese Cyber World: Case Studies from Weibo
… discusses features of citizen communication on Weibo, the Chinese social media platform, and its relationship to participatory democracy in China. Weibo is a complex social space due to the interplay of different forces and social actors. On the one hand, Weibo provides the space for bottom-up …
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A Comparative Analysis of Weibo and Xinhua in Framing Chinese Civic Engagement
… to examine how the popular Chinese social media Weibo and government-run news website Xinhuanet cover three Chinese civic events: the Guo Meimei Event (2011), the Wenzhou Train Crash Event (2011), and the Kindergarten Abuse Event (2012). The findings indicate that Xinhua is more likely to use …
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Sina Weibo and its political implications: a case study of the Zhou Yongkang incident
… 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, social …
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Nationalism and social media in China: a case study of Chinese nationalist movement against Muslim minorities on Sina Weibo
… 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 nation …
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Understanding and circumventing censorship on Chinese social media
… 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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Damages in Transparent Materials by Ultrashort Laser Pulse
Ultrashort lasers that generate laser pulses down to picosecond and femtosecond range have advanced over the past decade from delicate lab systems to robust industry machines. The availability of stable ultrashort laser systems opens up a wide range of exciting applications from transparent …
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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 of …
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Dynamic graph neural network framework for real-time multi-modal data analysis and predictive modeling
… datasets like Pheme, Twitter15, Twitter16, and WEIBO. These examples showcase how the framework uncovers evolving patterns across platforms by processing multi-modal data inputs such as text and network interactions, surpassing traditional models.
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Segmenting, Summarizing and Predicting Data Sequences
… social media websites such as Twitter and Weibo, we study the modeling of social media post sequences. Our goal is to understand how the posts (like tweets) are generated and how we can gain understanding of the users behind these posts. For individual social media post sequences, we study …
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The Politics of Food Safety
… are expressed using originally collected data of Weibo posts and newspaper articles about food safety at the Chinese sub-provincial level. I also use this dataset to investigate the types of incentives the local government respond to with regards to food safety regulatory enforcement. Finally, I …
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Reproductive Uncertainty: A sociological study of egg freezing governance in China
… 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 explain …
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Business plan of starting up a health checkup business in China
A health checkup business provides services to examine the customer's health status. This thesis has been developed to understand the heath preventive market and prepare a business plan of starting up high-tier checkup centers in China. The target customers are the high-income individuals with more …