We examine how social media plays the role of an attention driver for traditional media.
Social media attracts and channels attention to a topic. This attention triggers people to seek …

While studies have documented the difference between political and public discussions on
Chinese social media platforms, few have interrogated and compared how state and social …

Although the Internet allows people to circulate messages using different media, most
censorship studies discuss the removal of text content. This article presents a systematic …

This study explores the influence of social media on the (re) formation of social memory and
the production of historical knowledge in society. It takes several contested debates over …

The tremendous development of online social media has changed people's life
fundamentally in recent years. Weibo, a Twitter-like service in China, has attracted more …

Left-leaning social thoughts are not a unitary and coherent theoretical system, and leftists
can be divided into divergent groups. Based on inductive qualitative observations, this …

Microblogging sites are important vehicles for the users to obtain information and shape
public opinion thus they are arenas of continuous competition for popularity. Most popular …

Taking off at the height of China's socio-economic reforms in the mid-1990s, the Internet
developed alongside the twists and turns of the country's rapid transformation. Central to …

The existence of educational institutions plays a very large role in educating human
resources in Indonesia. Because in essence education has two main objectives, namely to …

Online media have brought tremendous changes to civic life, public opinions, and
government administration. Compared with traditional media, online media not only allow …