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This chapter mainly discusses the concept, characteristics and typical cases of network rumors, particularly studies on the communication of network rumors with Chinese characteristics and proposes the model of network rumor communication, spreading and dissolution.
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In March 2011, the nuclear power plant explosion in Japan gave rise to the panic of “nuclear leak” that was widely spread in China. Many residents of coastal cities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, such as Shaoxing, Ningbo and Fuzhou, rushed to supermarkets to purchase salt, preparing against the nuclear radiation pollution from Japan. They did this for two reasons: firstly, it was said that iodized salt could protect people from radiation; and secondly, sea salt was rumored to have been polluted by nuclear leak.
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Kuang, W. (2018). Studies of New Media’s Rumors. In: Social Media in China. Sociology, Media and Journalism in China. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0914-4_8
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