Vol. 1, Issue 4, 2014

A Brief Introduction of the Special Section: Social Media and Social Participation

A telephone survey was conducted in a metropolitan city in 2012 to examine people’s credibility ratings of different media outlets, in particular, Weibo - one...

Social media is being increasingly utilized in disaster relief work to identify safety issues, locate displaced-victims, and seek or provide support for those who need...

Social media is becoming more and more important in social movements. This study, adopting the web mining approach, attempts to investigate how social media, Facebook...

China’s “two sessions,” namely, the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), has significant meaning to the political life of...

Political parties would normally claim that their campaign and communication materials have effects on voters, be it on their supporters or their opponents during election...