Trust, fear and social influence: on the use of social media in China’s authoritarian governance regime

Homburg, Vincent

doi:10.18690/978-961-286-280-0.12

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“…The 'unified theory of acceptance and use of technology' (UTAUT and UTAUT2) (see integrates many variables from the aforementioned theories into a model that features an individual's 'intention to use' as a mediator in the relation between an individual's actual use of a specific technology as an outcome variable and a set of predictors like the user's expectancy, ease of use, peer pressure, habit and the availability of resources. UTAUT and comparable models have been used to explain, among other things, Chinese consumers' use of mobile commerce platforms, as well as citizens' use of government websites in a variety of national contexts (Homburg, 2019;Yang et al, 2018). In general, the UTAUT and UTAUT2 models are suitable for explaining the adoption of specific services (and in an e-government context, especially electronic transactions) given, in principle, the voluntary use of the technology or service at hand.…”

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Psychological functioning and quality of life in patients with mastocytosis

Vermeiren¹,

Kranenburg²,

Daele

et al. 2020

Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology

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Authorities in the People's Republic of China communicate with citizens using an estimated 600,000 Sina Weibo microblogs. This study reports on a study of Chinese citizens' adoption of microblogs to interact with the government. Adoption results from trust and peer pressure in smaller-network ties (densely knit, pervasive social networks surrounding individual citizens). Larger-network ties (trust in institutions at large, such as the Chinese Communist Party, executive organizations, the judicial system, the media, etc.) are not associated with the adoption of microblogging. Furthermore, higher levels of anxiety are correlated with lower levels of use intention, and this finding

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Psychological functioning and quality of life in patients with mastocytosis

Vermeiren¹,

Kranenburg²,

Daele

et al. 2020

Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology

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Who Rallies Round the Flag? The Impact of the US Sanctions on Iranians’ Attitude toward the Government

RezaeeDaryakenari,

Ghafouri,

Kasap

2024

Foreign Policy Analysis

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While politicians often argue that economic sanctions can induce policy changes in targeted states by undermining elite and public support for the reigning government, the efficacy of these measures, particularly against non-democratic regimes, is debatable. We propose that, counterintuitively, economic sanctions can bolster rather than diminish support for the sanctioned government, even in non-democratic contexts. However, this support shift and its magnitude can differ across various political factions and depend on the nature of the sanctions. To empirically evaluate our theoretical expectations, we use supervised machine learning to scrutinize nearly 2 million tweets from over 1,000 Iranian influencers, assessing their responses to both comprehensive and targeted sanctions during Donald Trump’s presidency. Our analysis shows that comprehensive sanctions generally improved sentiments toward the Iranian government, even among its moderate oppositions, rendering them more aligned with the state’s stance. Conversely, while targeted sanctions elicited a milder rally-around-the-flag response, the identity of the targeted entity plays a crucial role in determining the scale of this reaction.

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Adopting microblogging solutions for interaction with government: survey results from Hunan province, China

Homburg

Moody

Yang

et al. 2020

International Review of Administrative Sciences

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Authorities in the People’s Republic of China communicate with citizens using an estimated 600,000 Sina Weibo microblogs. This study reports on a study of Chinese citizens’ adoption of microblogs to interact with the government. Adoption results from trust and peer pressure in smaller-network ties (densely knit, pervasive social networks surrounding individual citizens). Larger-network ties (trust in institutions at large, such as the Chinese Communist Party, executive organizations, the judicial system, the media, etc.) are not associated with the adoption of microblogging. Furthermore, higher levels of anxiety are correlated with lower levels of use intention, and this finding underlines the impact of the Chinese authority’s surveillance and control activities on the lives of individual Chinese citizens. Based on these findings, we outline a theory of why citizens use microblogs to interact with the government and suggest avenues for further research into microblogs, state–citizen communication patterns and technology adoption. Points for practitioners Our research identifies trust in individual civil servants, citizens’ anxiety and peer pressure as drivers of Chinese citizens’ intentions to use the Weibo microblogging platform to interact with the Chinese government. This insight allows practitioners to better understand citizens’ drivers and obstacles in the use of social media in state–citizen relations in China.

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Trust, fear and social influence: on the use of social media in China’s authoritarian governance regime

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Psychological functioning and quality of life in patients with mastocytosis

Psychological functioning and quality of life in patients with mastocytosis

Who Rallies Round the Flag? The Impact of the US Sanctions on Iranians’ Attitude toward the Government

Adopting microblogging solutions for interaction with government: survey results from Hunan province, China

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