Sökning: "Chinese civic engagement"
Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden Chinese civic engagement.
1. The Everyday Practices of Resistance in Chinese Social Media: The Uses of Memes for Civic Engagement
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och mediaSammanfattning : This thesis aims to understand the everyday use of digital media by Chinese ordinary citizens as new forms of civic engagement under strict online censorship and CCP’s authoritarian control. With the announcement of the Third-child Policy as the analytical background, I adopted a qualitative research method and conducted digitally mediated ethnography on Sina Weibo users. LÄS MER
2. Here to be Heard : Digital feminist engagement with #MeTooinChina
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapSammanfattning : This study analyses Chinese people's engagement in #MeTooinChina against sexual assault and patriarchal norms in Chinese society by asking three main research questions: 1) Why and how do Chinese people engage with #MeTooinChina? 2) What challenges are they faced with in their engagement and how do these challenges influence their continuous engagement with #MeTooinChina? 3) How do they reflect on their engagement and evaluate the outcomes of #MeTooinChina? Theoretically the thesis draws on research into digital social movements, in particular in relation to feminist movements, as well as theories on the network society and how social media is used for political engagement. The notion of political engagement as based in emotions and affects is discussed in particular. LÄS MER
3. The Dynamics of Weibo Charities : A case study of “The Free Lunch Program”
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudierSammanfattning : Since 2010, Weibo is not only a tool for transmitting information, but also for conducting all kinds of charity activities to attract more public attention and give people more power to influence public welfare. The purpose of this thesis is to explore Chinese citizens’ knowledge of Weibo charities and their motivation for participating in Weibo charities by carrying out a case study of the Free Lunch Program. LÄS MER
4. Chinese (in)action: Seeing breathing as a means to understand citizens’ (in)action
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : Civic engagement plays an important role in governmental transparency – so how does transparency work in a non-democracy like China where the political and juridical systems repress public participation? Through quantitative methods this paper examines how a selection of citizens in Shanghai, China, make use of environmental information made available through the Chinese government’s Open Environmental Information (OEI) transparency measures. The findings indicate that information on air quality is only utilized by a small percentage of the research sample, while the majority do not adhere to warnings of heath risks associated with smog. LÄS MER
5. Weibo's Role in Shaping Public Opinion and Political Participation in China
Kandidat-uppsats, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för teknik och estetikSammanfattning : This thesis examines the role of microblogging in shaping public opinion and political participation in China with particular focus on the question of what sociopolitical implications and challenges that weibo phenomenon has brought to the Chinese society. I explore some of the prominent features of weibo for the role they plays in framing public sphere. LÄS MER
