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Feasibility Study of New Media Technology
on Constructing Online Public Sphere

reports, and 45% of respondents in Figure 57 believed that they were able to distinguish

the conflicts and contradictions between different media reports. At the same time, 23%
would do further investigation, search for information about the case by themselves,
and make their own judgment. As illustrated in Figure 58, when reading the comments
and discussions about the Yihuang case on Weibo and other social networking sites,
52% held a sceptical attitude to online information and they only take reaction after

identifying whether it is the fake or genuine.

Figure 58. Attitudes towards online information created by the public.

7.5 Discussion

7.5.1 Role of Weibo on public participation

From the emergence of We Media and the advancement of ICT, a series of up-
grading and replacement of the platforms has occurred. The media products involved

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