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Social media as a deliberative arena? Environmental protection bureaus meet netizens on Sina Weibo in China
This dissertation analyzes the interactions of netizens and environmental protection bureaus (EPB) in China as a case of authoritarian deliberation. To do so the characteristics setting social media apart from traditional ones are elaborated to show their unprecedented potential for deliberative practices and how they changed the nexus of state-society-media relations. Against this backdrop an analysis of collected conversations from the social media platform Sina Weibo using a mixed methods approach is conducted. The mixed methods approach relies on descriptive statistics to assess the scope and depths of EPBs activities on the platform in general and in comparison with other state agencies. It is one of the first systematic assessments that allow to gauge the impact of state-society relation taking place on social media. The findings suggest that deliberative practices are already taking place to a significant degree on social media between state agencies and citizens, but only to a marginal degree in the field of environmental protection. This deviates from the original research assumptions which were based the gravity of issues related to environmental protection and the comparatively high levels of interaction in other policy fields. Based on the insights gained by the quantitative assessment a region in China exhibiting high levels of activity in the field of environmental protection was selected for the second part of the mixed methods approach. This part uses qualitative content analysis to examine in detail the interactions of a group of selected EBPs representing the prefecture level city of Jiaxing. The qualitative evaluation uses a framework developed to assess local e-government services. The findings suggest that at least in this area deliberation between EPBs and netizens occurs regularly. The state agencies are responsive to societal input and can to some extent be pressurized to take action. The most dominant aspects brought into the interactions from the societal sphere can be related to the ...
Social media as a deliberative arena? Environmental protection bureaus meet netizens on Sina Weibo in China
This dissertation analyzes the interactions of netizens and environmental protection bureaus (EPB) in China as a case of authoritarian deliberation. To do so the characteristics setting social media apart from traditional ones are elaborated to show their unprecedented potential for deliberative practices and how they changed the nexus of state-society-media relations. Against this backdrop an analysis of collected conversations from the social media platform Sina Weibo using a mixed methods approach is conducted. The mixed methods approach relies on descriptive statistics to assess the scope and depths of EPBs activities on the platform in general and in comparison with other state agencies. It is one of the first systematic assessments that allow to gauge the impact of state-society relation taking place on social media. The findings suggest that deliberative practices are already taking place to a significant degree on social media between state agencies and citizens, but only to a marginal degree in the field of environmental protection. This deviates from the original research assumptions which were based the gravity of issues related to environmental protection and the comparatively high levels of interaction in other policy fields. Based on the insights gained by the quantitative assessment a region in China exhibiting high levels of activity in the field of environmental protection was selected for the second part of the mixed methods approach. This part uses qualitative content analysis to examine in detail the interactions of a group of selected EBPs representing the prefecture level city of Jiaxing. The qualitative evaluation uses a framework developed to assess local e-government services. The findings suggest that at least in this area deliberation between EPBs and netizens occurs regularly. The state agencies are responsive to societal input and can to some extent be pressurized to take action. The most dominant aspects brought into the interactions from the societal sphere can be related to the ...
Social media as a deliberative arena? Environmental protection bureaus meet netizens on Sina Weibo in China
Dau, Magnus (Autor:in) / Heberer, Thomas
05.11.2018
Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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