Application Appraisal of Government Micro-blogging on Citizens: An Empirical Study of Western China

DOI

10.2991/icassr-14.2014.29How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Government micro-blogging, Impact, usability, Factor Analysis

Abstract

This paper aims to identify application impacts with the emerging government micro-blog of various social functions. Some countries claimed that the developing of micro-blog was driven mainly by the innovative demand in the society especially of the youths online net-users. However, this claim requires further validation of empirical testing approach to make clear what are actual factors To achieve this goal, it is required to conduct analyzing factors with broader social background scope and administrative perspective. Based on a quantitative analyses approach, this study analyzes user’s preference causes toward micro-blog, and the most dominant factors influencing users. This paper discusses the development of Government micro-blog in China, and a case study to evaluate social usability and media impacts of China’s government institutions. Conclusions are drawn that micro-blog will bring a completely revolution to break incentive incompatibility in the procedure of democratic supervision and administrative leaders ought to address to the modern social information function.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zezhao Liu
AU  - Q. Zhang
AU  - Chang Sheng Fan
PY  - 2014/07
DA  - 2014/07
TI  - Application Appraisal of Government Micro-blogging on Citizens: An Empirical Study of Western China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Social Science Research
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 102
EP  - 105
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icassr-14.2014.29
DO  - 10.2991/icassr-14.2014.29
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