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Web 2.0: A Must-Have Accessory in Shanghai?

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Information and Expression in Web 2.0: A Study of Internet Users in Shanghai 本 研究是作者研究“Web2.0与中国社会舆论”的基础部分。研究将Web2.0知情与表达行为操作化地定义为网民通过两种典型的Web2.0应用——博客 (blog)和电子论坛(BBS)阅读新闻和发表意见的行为。通过在上海城区进行的CATI电话调查(N=495)发现:网民中Web2.0知情比例约在 80%左右,表达比例在50%左右;在描述基础上,研究对影响Web2.0知情与表达采纳与否和使用频率的因素进行了探讨 Zhou Baohua is a journalism lecturer at Fudan University. He begins by saying that there has been a general phenomenon on the ‘Net of increased sharing and Web 2.0 applications, and it appears to have a relationship with [...]

Getting Farmers on the Net in Anhui

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Uses and development of the Internet in less developed regions Based on a investigation about the internet used in the animal husbandry in Anhui Fuyang, this paper aims to explore two issues: 1)whether the rural users have developed their own object in using Internet ,2)whether the internet itself has developed a network economic entity in [...]

College Students Open to Online Health Information

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Perceived Credibility of Online Health Information in China: A Survey of College Students in Ganzhou The current research aims to explore why and how Chinese people use online health information and how they perceive the credibility of online health information in terms of information itself and website features by conducting a survey among college students [...]

Don’t Blame the Internet!

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Don’t Blame the Internet Anymore! – A Revisit to the Internet’s Influence on Traditional Media Use and Sociability Link Peng Tai-Quan and Jonathan Zhu are looking at the effect of the internet on traditional media as well as on sociability, breaking discussion on this topic into Displacing, Complementary, Pessimistic and Optimistic views. One of the [...]