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Author Kent, Mike

Title Chinese Social Media : Social, Cultural, and Political Implications
Published Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages)
Series Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia
Routledge research in digital media and culture in Asia.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Chinese Social Media Today; PART I: Chinese Social Media and the Public; 2 Social Media and the Experience Economy in China's Microphilanthropy; 3 Social Media and Activism of Grassroots NGOs in China: A Case Study of Love Save Pneumoconiosis (LSP); 4 The 'Making' of an Online Celebrity: A Case Study of Chinese Rural Gay Couple An Wei and Wu Yebin; 5 Populist Sentiments and Digital Ethos in the Social Media Space: Revelations of Weibo Celebrities in China
PART II: Chinese Social Media and (Re)Presentation6 Framing Food Safety Issues in China: The Negotiation between 'Official Discourse' in Newspapers and 'Civil Discourse' on Weibo; 7 Face-work on Social Media in China: The Presentation of Self on RenRen and Facebook; 8 RenRen and Social Capital in Contemporary China; PART III: Chinese Social Media and Disability; 9 WeChat and the Voice Donor Campaign: An Example of 'Doing Good' on Social Media; 10 Information and Communications Technology and Social Media Accessibility in China: A Peep at a Leopard through a Tube?
11 The Accessibility of Chinese Social Media Applications: A Heuristic Evaluation of the WeChat AppPART IV: Chinese Social Media in Greater China and Overseas; 12 From (Anti-mainland) Sinophobia and Shibboleths to Mobilisation on a Taiwanese Message Board; 13 Chinese Internet Companies go Global: Online Traffic, Framing and Open Issues; 14 The Global Expansion of China-based Social Media Platforms and Its Dynamics in the Australian Context; PART V: Chinese Social Media Critique; 15 Re-imagining Guangzhou on Sina Weibo: Geo-identity and Chinese Social Media
16 The Decline of Sina Weibo: A Technological, Political and Market AnalysisList of Contributors; Index
Summary "This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media, internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the Anglophone paradigm. The collection focuses on the intersections between Chinese language social media and disability, celebrity, sexuality, interpersonal communication, charity, diaspora, public health, political activism and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The book is not only rich in its theoretical perspectives but also in its methodologies. Contributors use both qualitative and quantitative methods to study Chinese social media and its social-cultural-political implications, such as case studies, in-depth interviews, participatory observations, discourse analysis, content analysis and data mining."--Provided by publisher
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Subject Internet -- Social aspects -- China
COMPUTERS -- Social Aspects -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Internet -- Social aspects
China
Form Electronic book
Author Ellis, Katie
Xu, Jian
ISBN 9781351661836
1351661833