TY - JOUR
T1 - Online Participation Chaos
T2 - A Case Study of Chinese Government-Initiated E-Polity Square
AU - Zhang, Wei
AU - Xu, Xiaolin
AU - Zhang, Hui
AU - Chen, Qiang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2016/12/5
Y1 - 2016/12/5
N2 - The research examines a government-initiated online engagement program in China, mainly including its history, mechanism, and how netizens participated in it. To clearly address the participation scenario, a framework is proposed to further explore the quality of participation. The result shows that participation chaos is prevalent with poor-quality proposals. A government censorship exists all the time and changes with the popularity of the forum. It also implies that the purpose of a Chinese government-initiated online engagement forum may be varied, one for engagement and the other for maintaining stability, which partly attributes to the online participation chaos.
AB - The research examines a government-initiated online engagement program in China, mainly including its history, mechanism, and how netizens participated in it. To clearly address the participation scenario, a framework is proposed to further explore the quality of participation. The result shows that participation chaos is prevalent with poor-quality proposals. A government censorship exists all the time and changes with the popularity of the forum. It also implies that the purpose of a Chinese government-initiated online engagement forum may be varied, one for engagement and the other for maintaining stability, which partly attributes to the online participation chaos.
KW - Content analysis
KW - government-initiated
KW - governmental censorship
KW - online engagement
KW - participation chaos
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84973649009
U2 - 10.1080/01900692.2015.1072218
DO - 10.1080/01900692.2015.1072218
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:84973649009
SN - 0190-0692
VL - 39
SP - 1195
EP - 1202
JO - International Journal of Public Administration
JF - International Journal of Public Administration
IS - 14
ER -