Participating and Expressing Attitudes in New Media: A Case Study of Comments on President Xi Jinping’s Speech at UN

Abstract

In the age of ``Web 2.0'', new media have been acting as significant vehicles in politics (Boyd in From text to political positions: Text analysis across disciplines. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, Philadelphia, pp. 245--68, 2014). On the one hand, they can be utilized as tools for political advertising (Reisigl and Wodak in Methods of critical discourse analysis. Sage, London, pp. 87--121, 2009), and on the other hand as a platform where netizens can express their opinions through commenting on political activities broadcast on new media, such as YouTube, Twitter, Weibo and WeChat.