The Role of Weibo in Social Public Events

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10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_207How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social Media; Public Opinion; Information Dissemination; Social Public Events

Abstract

This paper questions how social media, particularly Weibo plays a part in social public events, focusing on two events, namely, the “Chained Women” and the Covid-19 pandemic. Both of them had become top trending topics on Weibo. Goffman’s dramaturgical theory and Foucault’s power theory are combined to analyze them and comparison is applied to see the similarity and differences between a short-term individual event and a long-term social event that covers many people. From the materials, it can be seen that social media can act as a discoverer and push the event to be more widely known. The emergence of Weibo provides another way of thinking about the solution to the incidents and can act as a supervisor to give warning effects. Understanding the role of Weibo in social public events can help people to take a glance at the situation of social public events on social media and the importance of public sentiments.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yiyao Zhang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - The Role of Weibo in Social Public Events
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1805
EP  - 1812
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_207
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_207
ID  - Zhang2022
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