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Chapter 5. The Sun Zhigang incident

participation channels, providing unique motivation for civic engagement, and

consequently promoting the development of democratic politics in China’ (Shao,
Lu and Wu, 2012, p.78).
Internet and mobile communication channels create a new realm in which privi-
lege is less important, but freedom and equality are presented more.

Figure 6. How long do you spend on the internet per day?
My questionnaire survey included questions that focused on the habits around
using the internet. Figure 6 shows that 76.19% of the respondents spend more than 1
hour per day on the internet, and 17.14% of the respondents spend more than 4 hours.

It shows that internet use has already penetrated people’s daily lives regardless of how
they exactly use it.

Figure 7. The SNS that you are currently using, or you have registered.

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