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Feasibility Study of New Media Technology
on Constructing Online Public Sphere

ise offline mass events, especially parades and public assemblies. It requires a report to

be made to the local police department and approval to be granted; however, the whole
process is complicated and the approval is extremely difficult to get.

Figure 9. Why do you pay attention to these events and actively participate in them?
In Figure 9, the top three reasons for why people pay attention to and participate
in online public events were identified as ‘I wish more people know about the event’
(61.74%), ‘to satisfy my curiosity’ (51.3%) and ‘to change and improve the environ-

ment where I live’ (47.83%).

Figure 10. How do you get involved in these online public events you chose?
Given the answers to what internet users are concerned with and why, it is im-

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