Online Participation Chaos: A Case Study of Chinese Government-Initiated E-Polity Square

Wei, Zhang; Xu, Xiaolin; Zhang, Hui; Chen, Qiang

doi:10.1080/01900692.2015.1072218

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“…Undoubtedly, the popularity and ease in adoption of social media has changed the ways in which public services are delivered and communicated. An increasing number of government agencies have realized the importance of actively participating on social media for citizen engagement, relationship building, and citizen compliance [2][3][4][5][6]. One recently introduced social media platform is Tik Tok, a micro-video sharing platform that allows users to create short videos, lasting from several seconds to several minutes, and then share it with the wider Tik Tok community.…”

Section: Social Media Use By Healthcare Departmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The final coding scheme is presented in Figure 1 and Table 1. Two graduate students studying Health Informatics were trained before coding the micro-videos separately, with their inter-reliability rate being 0.94 [6,35], deeming the coding scheme effective. Emphasized theme (Ending) Refers to the technique of re-emphasizing the theme at the end of the micro-video.…”

Section: Analysis Of Tik Tok Accountsmentioning

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How Health Communication via Tik Tok Makes a Difference: A Content Analysis of Tik Tok Accounts Run by Chinese Provincial Health Committees

Zhu

Wei

et al. 2019

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During the last two decades, social media has immersed itself into all facets of our personal and professional lives. The healthcare sector is no exception, with public health departments now capitalizing on the benefits that social media offers when delivering healthcare education and communication with citizens. Provincial Health Committees (PHCs) in China have begun to adopt the micro-video sharing platform, Tik Tok, to engage with local residents and communicate health-related information. This study investigates the status quo of official Tik Tok accounts managed by PHCs in mainland China. In total, 31 PHC accounts were analyzed during August 2019, while the top 100 most liked micro-videos were examined using content analysis. Coding included three major aspects: Quantified Impact, Video Content, and Video Form. 45.2% (n = 14) of PHCs had official Tik Tok accounts. A limited number of accounts (n = 2) were yet to upload a micro-video, while most (n = 9) had uploaded their first micro-video during 2019. For the top 100 most liked micro-videos, a sharp difference was observed in terms of number of Likes, Comments and Reposts. Videos containing cartoons or documentary-style content were most frequently watched by citizens. Similarly, content that promoted professional health or provided knowledge of diseases was frequently viewed. Content containing original music, formal mandarin language, subtitles, and which lasted less than 60 s, were most frequently followed. It is considered a missed opportunity that most PHCs struggle to take advantage of the Tik Tok platform, especially given its growing popularity and daily increase in account creation.

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Section: Social Media Use By Healthcare Departmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Analysis Of Tik Tok Accountsmentioning

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How Health Communication via Tik Tok Makes a Difference: A Content Analysis of Tik Tok Accounts Run by Chinese Provincial Health Committees

Zhu

Wei

et al. 2019

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“…Petition quality also factors into success. In the case of a government-initiated programme in China, most attention and comments are granted to petitions with high salience and low complexity (Zhang et al 2016). Despite its popularity amongst citizens, this case is criticised for the prevalence of so-called "participation chaos", stemming from low-quality proposals with little or no relevance and organisational issues such as misplacements of proposal types, whereas organised participation requires a certain level of civic knowledge or skills (Zhang et al 2016).…”

Section: E-petitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the case of a government-initiated programme in China, most attention and comments are granted to petitions with high salience and low complexity (Zhang et al 2016). Despite its popularity amongst citizens, this case is criticised for the prevalence of so-called "participation chaos", stemming from low-quality proposals with little or no relevance and organisational issues such as misplacements of proposal types, whereas organised participation requires a certain level of civic knowledge or skills (Zhang et al 2016). Analysing the growth of the Downing Street e-petitions with a big data approach (over 8000 petitions) over a time span of 2 years, Hale et al 2013discovered a few successful petitions with rapid growth, the number of signatures gathered on the first day being a good indicator for success.…”

Section: E-petitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experience with Digital Tools in Different Types of e-Participation

Aichholzer

Rose

2019

Studies in Digital Politics and Governance

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The chapter offers a systematic overview of the use of digital tools for various forms of political participation and the experiences made so far, based on an extensive literature review. Discerning three key functions of e-participationmonitoring, agenda-setting and input to decision-making-the authors review a variety of formally institutionalised mechanisms as well as informal expressions of civic engagement, including social media. The examination of digital tool use for monitoring purposes extends from electronic information access and exchange to e-deliberation, while the role for agenda-setting mainly includes uses for e-petitions and e-campaigning, showing a mixed picture of democratic impacts. The review of e-participation providing input for decision-making focusses on e-consultations, e-participative budgeting and e-voting, identifying several persisting problems with the latter instrument. A special section examines e-participation at EU-level, from deliberative citizens' involvement projects and e-consultation to the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) and e-petitions to the European Parliament. Findings show that digital tools enhance direct and participative democracy in many respects; however, exaggerated expectations of new democratic potentials remain unfulfilled: deliberative participative designs lack any impact on decision-making, and the ECI still is rather an instrument for civil society mobilisation than citizen empowerment. 4.1 Three Basic Functions of e-Participation Understanding "e-participation" as the use of digital tools for political participation in the wider sense includes a wide variety of formally institutionalised mechanisms, as well as informal expressions of civic engagement. According to their predominant function in the policy cycle, we can discern three basic functions of participation (we prefer this typology because of the focus on level of impacts):

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“…In response to declining participation and trust in public institutions, many local and national governments have been adopting ICT-driven strategies to reach and engage citizens and obtain their input (Dahlberg, 2010;Wright & Street, 2007;Zhang, Xu, Zhang, & Chen, 2016). Although online forums and other ICT platforms are highly interesting remedies for declining public participation (Wright & Street, 2007), they may also mask the more fundamental problems that democratic governance systems are currently facing.…”

Section: The Quest For Civil Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Competition and Collusion to Consent-Based Collaboration: A Case Study of Local Democracy

Romme

Broekgaarden²,

Huijzer³

et al. 2016

International Journal of Public Administration

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Online Participation Chaos: A Case Study of Chinese Government-Initiated E-Polity Square

Cited by 17 publications

References 29 publications

How Health Communication via Tik Tok Makes a Difference: A Content Analysis of Tik Tok Accounts Run by Chinese Provincial Health Committees

How Health Communication via Tik Tok Makes a Difference: A Content Analysis of Tik Tok Accounts Run by Chinese Provincial Health Committees

Experience with Digital Tools in Different Types of e-Participation

From Competition and Collusion to Consent-Based Collaboration: A Case Study of Local Democracy

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