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Feasibility Study of New Media Technology
on Constructing Online Public Sphere

chures were used to disseminate the scientific fact about PX and the chemical plant

in order to ease public’s concern. SMS was the main channel to publicise the govern-
ment’s announcement and online voting platform was opened to collect public opinion.
Overall, based on my analysis of the government and media’s performance in the
Xiamen PX plant event, my book demonstrated a peculiar relationship between the
government and media companies in China: cooperation for coexistence; supervise and

to be supervised.

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