How online public challenge Chinese scientists’ authority

BY Zheng Yang, PhD
Scientists are always considered the only ‘legitimate’ communicators in the online science communication process, especially in the Chinese context where science and scientists enjoy very lofty social status with their discourse authority.However, the digital media environment and the public - who are good at taking advantages of such an environment - are changing this

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