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      Chinese Social Media

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      Chinese Social Media book

      Social, Cultural, and Political Implications

      Chinese Social Media

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      Chinese Social Media book

      Social, Cultural, and Political Implications
      Edited ByMike Kent, Katie Ellis, Jian Xu
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 3 October 2017
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315160214
      Pages 264
      eBook ISBN 9781315160214
      Subjects Area Studies, Communication Studies, Humanities, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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      Kent, M., Ellis, K., & Xu, J. (Eds.). (2017). Chinese Social Media: Social, Cultural, and Political Implications (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315160214

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|6 pages

      Chinese Social Media Today

      ByMike Kent, Katie Ellis, Jian Xu

      part I|68 pages

      Chinese Social Media and the Public

      chapter 2|13 pages

      Social Media and the Experience Economy in China’s Microphilanthropy

      ByHaiqing Yu

      chapter 3|20 pages

      Social Media and Activism of Grassroots NGOs in China

      A Case Study of Love Save Pneumoconiosis (LSP)
      ByDianlin Huang

      chapter 4|17 pages

      The ‘Making’ of an Online Celebrity

      A Case Study of Chinese Rural Gay Couple An Wei and Wu Yebin
      ByLianrui Jia, Tianyang Zhou

      chapter 5|16 pages

      Populist Sentiments and Digital Ethos in the Social Media Space

      Revelations of Weibo Celebrities in China
      ByZixue Tai, Jing Liang, Xiaolong Liu

      part II|42 pages

      Chinese Social Media and (Re)Presentation

      chapter 6|15 pages

      Framing Food Safety Issues in China

      The Negotiation between ‘Official Discourse’ in Newspapers and ‘Civil Discourse’ on Weibo
      ByYang Wang

      chapter 7|14 pages

      Face-work on Social Media in China

      The Presentation of Self on RenRen and Facebook
      ByXiaoli Tian

      chapter 8|11 pages

      RenRen and Social Capital in Contemporary China

      ByDavid Holmes, Naziat Choudhury

      part III|43 pages

      Chinese Social Media and Disability

      chapter 9|11 pages

      WeChat and the Voice Donor Campaign

      An Example of ‘Doing Good’ on Social Media
      ByMike Kent, Katie Ellis, He Zhang, Danjing Zhang

      chapter 10|14 pages

      Information and Communications Technology and Social Media Accessibility in China

      A Peep at a Leopard through a Tube?
      ByYao Ding, G. Anthony Giannoumis

      chapter 11|17 pages

      The Accessibility of Chinese Social Media Applications

      A Heuristic Evaluation of the WeChat App
      ByWeiqin Chen, Way Kiat Bong, Nan Li

      part IV|46 pages

      Chinese Social Media in Greater China and Overseas

      chapter 12|12 pages

      From (Anti-mainland) Sinophobia and Shibboleths to Mobilisation on a Taiwanese Message Board

      ByJoshua Cader

      chapter 13|16 pages

      Chinese Internet Companies go Global

      Online Traffic, Framing and Open Issues
      ByGianluigi Negro

      chapter 14|16 pages

      The Global Expansion of China-based Social Media Platforms and Its Dynamics in the Australian Context

      ByJiajie Lu

      part V|30 pages

      Chinese Social Media Critique

      chapter 15|12 pages

      Re-imagining Guangzhou on Sina Weibo

      Geo-identity and Chinese Social Media
      ByWilfred Yang Wang

      chapter 16|16 pages

      The Decline of Sina Weibo

      A Technological, Political and Market Analysis
      ByJonathan Benney, Jian Xu
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