How Opinionated Information Influences Local Public Affairs’ Decision Making Process: a Debate on the Construction of Baiyunshan Tunnel in Guangzhou

CHEN Min

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2013, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (11) : 19-33.

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2013, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (11) : 19-33.

 How Opinionated Information Influences Local Public Affairs’ Decision Making Process: a Debate on the Construction of Baiyunshan Tunnel in Guangzhou

  •   Chen Min is a lecturer at the School of Communication and Design, Sun Yat-Sen University. This article is supported by the Project of “Funding the Young Scholars on Their Initial Stage of Research”. Email: cmw226@163.com.
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Abstract

  Civil rights consciousness prompts the activeness of citizens in participating in the public affairs. And because of the close correlations between the public affairs and the public rights, citizens volunteer actively to take part in the public affair discussion. As an important channel for citizen participation, the media and the information about opinions play important role in intervening and promoting local public affairs’ development. This paper takes the event “Debate on the Construction of Baiyunshan Tunnel in Guangzhou” as case study, aims to discuss how the opinion information is presented on different media platform., who is the main body of the opinion information, and what the key factors affect the intervention and participation of public affairs.

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 opinionated information / public affairs / civic participation

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CHEN Min.  How Opinionated Information Influences Local Public Affairs’ Decision Making Process: a Debate on the Construction of Baiyunshan Tunnel in Guangzhou[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2013, 35(11): 19-33

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This article is supported by the Project of “Funding the Young Scholars on Their Initial Stage of Research”.

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