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Feasibility Study of New Media Technology
on Constructing Online Public Sphere

there is a good chance that they will be directly involved in the form of public partici-

pation. Technology also enables a variety of channels for citizen engagement, for exam-
ple, blogs and QQ groups in this case. These new forms of social media have changed
and enhanced the effectiveness of public participation.

Figure 30. Why did you follow, discuss and participate in the ‘Xiamen PX’ case?

6.4.1.2 Netizens’ concern about offline activities

As shown in Figure 31, only 9.52% of the respondents claimed that they organ-
ised or participated in the protest events against Xiamen PX project at that time, while
64.76% only paid attention to the protest events, but did not take any practical action.

Figure 31. Did you participate in the protest events against ‘Xiamen PX’ project at the time?

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