Digital technologies help increase citizen engagement and engagement. How does it help and promote civic engagement? What is the difference between E-participation and offline participation? The article selects three public consultation activities on real estate (cultural relics) evaluation carried out by the Macao government from 2015 to 2021 as cases. Research shows that, after years of development, electronic participation is still not the main way for citizens to participate, but the expression of opinions and emotional distribution of online participation are more diverse than offline participation. The study found that compared with traditional models such as offline participation, E-participation is more open, inclusive and convenient, providing a more open channel for the public to participate in public consultation activities, providing a relaxed expression environment and extensive communication opportunities, and enhancing the public’s willingness to express their true feelings. Second, through the open, convenient communication and influence of electronic participation, the influence and effectiveness of public opinion have also been significantly improved. Compared with the "black box" of opinions that may appear in traditional methods, online opinions are more open and transparent, allowing different opinion holders to speak more willingly and dare to speak. Therefore, it is suggested to strengthen electronic participation in public consultation. On the one hand, it should meet the participation requirements of the information technology era and enrich the channels for the public to participate in public affairs in the future; on the other hand, it can promote the enthusiasm of public participation and make public opinions convenient, diverse and true.

Social distancing restrictions for COVID-19 epidemic prevention have substantially changed the field of youths’ social activities. Many studies have focused on the impact of epidemic-preventative social distancing on individual physical and mental health. However, in the field of social distancing for epidemic prevention, what are the changes in youth anti-epidemic action and states caused by their interpersonal resources and interactions? Responding to this question by studying the impact of the elements of social capital in youths’ anti-epidemic actions and anti-epidemic states could help identify an effective mechanism for balancing social distancing for effective epidemic prevention and sustainable social-participation development among youth. Bourdieu’s field theory holds that the elements of social capital change with a change in the field. Therefore, we introduced the specific elements of social capital as independent variables and used a multinomal logistic model to analyze and predict the levels of youth anti-epidemic action through an empirical investigation of 1043 young people in Guangdong Province, China. The results show that, first, level of social distancing for epidemic prevention shows differences by occupation status and income level and correlates with social support. Second, social support and social norms play positive roles in promoting youth participation in anti-epidemic activities when social distance is certain. Third, social capital has a significant positive effect on youth social satisfaction and core relationships; however, social trust has a significant negative effect on youth physical and mental health. This study emphasized that social distancing for epidemic prevention is a special social situational state, which is a field where social capital has an impact on the differential changes in the public-participating actions and habitus of youth.

In grassroots water environment governance, political–community dialog is an unavoidable issue. Traditional policy analysis tools emphasize top-down stages and sequences, often ignoring the essential role of social factors (organizations, resources, or individuals)—outside the policy subsystem—in policy advocacy. The Advocacy Alliance Framework (ACF) provides a perspective on the role of social factors in policy changes and the interaction mechanism driving the relevant stages and alliances. In this study, we re-examine the key elements of the ACF and extract the grassroots logic of policy advocacy by discussing how actors act from policy divergence to policy learning, constructing an action framework to explain grassroots social policy advocacy in China. We find that policy advocacy depends on the joint influence of multiple elements such as the alliance members, alliance belief system and alliance resources. Therefore, social forces can better intervene in the policy agenda and achieve effective political–community dialog by identifying the relevant elements.

With the development of mobile Internet technology, the new network ecology has produced many impacts and challenges to the education industry and teaching mode, and mobile learning, a blended learning mode based on digital platforms, has been introduced into various teaching scenarios. Exploring how to apply the digital learning platform, play the resource integration and penetration function of online and offline blended learning, and maximize the realization of “effective teaching” and “effective learning” is an unavoidable issue in the future exploration and practice of blended learning modes. In recent years, higher education has been trying to introduce digital blended learning platforms into college classrooms. However, how to correctly recognize the essence of blended learning, how to realize the sustainable development of teaching resources, and how to effectively use digital technology to promote knowledge sharing are urgent problems to be solved in the current upsurge of digital blended learning. Through experimental design and case analysis, this study summarizes some difficulties in the development and application of digital blended learning modes, analyzes the reasons, and proposes some optimization strategies on this basis.