Blogging With a Mission, Blogging Within a System: Chinese Government-organized NGOs, Corporate-organized NGOs, Grassroots, and Student Organizations on Weibo

By analyzing 155 rural education nongovernmental organizations’ posting behavior on one of China’s largest social media platforms, Sina Weibo, we show that organizations with different backgrounds (government, corporate, grassroots, and student) behave differently. While organizational information t...

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Published in:Sociological research online 2017-09, Vol.22 (3), p.95-119
Main Authors: Zhou, Huiquan, Pan, Quanxiao
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Government
Grass roots movement
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NGOs
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Political systems
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Rural communities
Rural schools
Social media
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Political systems
Rural areas
Rural communities
Rural schools
Social media
Technology
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