1. Who, Whom?
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GARDELS, NATHAN
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GOVERNMENT & the press , *SOCIAL democracy , *ONLINE social networks , *COMMUNIST party work ,CHINESE politics & government, 2002- - Abstract
The author discusses the implications of developing the participatory power of media to government. The author states that governments derive their legitimacy as servants of people or democracies that can be considered as utilities forced by the transparency of information enabled by social networks. He mentions that monitory webocracy became an organic part of fabric of Chinese governance; hence, the Communist Party uses it as early warning feedback mechanism for performance-based legitimacy.
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- 2012
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