To Access or Not to Access: Influencing Factors for Government Microblogging Information Seeking and Avoidance among Chinese Generation Z

Table 2

Representative interview questions.

Categories	Questions
General views on information behavior	Consider what you usually do online.; Probe: Where do you typically go to search for information when you have information-seeking needs?; Probe: What kind of information do you often ignore when you are online?
General views on government microblogging	What is your view on government microblogging?; Probe: Which government microblogging have you read?; Probe: How would you rate the content published on government microblogging?
Government microblogging information seeking	Have you ever actively searched for information on government microblogging?; Probe: What reasons would prompt you to actively seek information on government microblogging?; Probe: Are you satisfied with the government microblogging information you have actively sought out?
Government microblogging information avoidance	Have you ever actively avoided information on government microblogging?; Probe: What reasons would cause you to avoid the information published on government microblogging?; Probe: Does this happen often?
Comparative judgment of information behavior (seeking and avoidance) among government microblogging	Based on your own experiences, please give one example each of seeking and avoiding information on government microblogging.; Probe: How would you evaluate your own behavior of seeking and avoiding information on government microblogging?; Probe: For those government microblogging you avoid, what improvements do you think could be made that might make you willing to continue reading?