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A Study of Online Public Opinion in New Media Environment

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Public opinion refers to the aggregate of feelings, wishes, attitudes and opinions held by the general public about public affairs with media as the carrier. In the new media environment, informatization is proceeding ever faster and computer and mobile phone are popularized, which drastically broadens the channels for people to express themselves. Moreover, social conflicts of all kinds have appeared one after another in the period of economic and social transformation, so online public opinion is never so flourishing as today, exerting major impacts on public power, management and supervision.

The paper is supported by National Social Science Foundation (Grant No.16CXW022).

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    “First Online Opinion Leader Summit in Foshan,” published online at http://www.citygf.com/plcs/038.

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    Rui Liu & Yungeng Xie

  2. School of Communication, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

    Yixuan Xie

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Liu, R., Xie, Y., Xie, Y. (2017). A Study of Online Public Opinion in New Media Environment. In: Xie, Y. (eds) New Media and China's Social Development. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3994-2_5

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