Social Media in Industrial China

Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their u...

Täydet tiedot

Tallennettuna:
Bibliografiset tiedot
Päätekijä: Wang, Xinyuan
Aineistotyyppi: Online
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: UCL Press 2021
Aiheet:
Linkit:618832
Tagit: Lisää tagi
Ei tageja, Lisää ensimmäinen tagi!
_version_ 1869528607797280768
author Wang, Xinyuan
author_browse Wang, Xinyuan
author_facet Wang, Xinyuan
author_sort Wang, Xinyuan
collection Directory of Open Access Books
description Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their use of social media. It was here she witnessed a second migration taking place: a movement from offline to online. As Wang argues, this is not simply a convenient analogy but represents the convergence of two phenomena as profound and consequential as each other, where the online world now provides a home for the migrant workers who feel otherwise ‘homeless’.
format Online
id doab-20.500.12854ir-26402
institution Directory of Open Access Books
language eng
publishDate 2021
publishDateRange 2021
publishDateSort 2021
publisher UCL Press
publisherStr UCL Press
record_format ojs
spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-264022025-05-08T04:28:18Z Social Media in Industrial China Wang, Xinyuan urban social media migration china Human migration Smartphone Tencent QQ WeChat Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their use of social media. It was here she witnessed a second migration taking place: a movement from offline to online. As Wang argues, this is not simply a convenient analogy but represents the convergence of two phenomena as profound and consequential as each other, where the online world now provides a home for the migrant workers who feel otherwise ‘homeless’. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2019-01-11 13:45:08 2020-04-01T13:57:26Z 2016 book 618832 OCN: 960895553 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32063 9781910634622 9781910634639 9781910634653 9781910634660 9781911307303 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26402 eng Why We Post open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32063/1/618832.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32063/1/618832.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32063/1/618832.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32063/1/618832.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32063/1/618832.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32063/1/618832.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32063/1/618832.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32063/1/618832.pdf UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781910634646 10.14324/111.9781910634646 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc FP7 Ideas: European Research Council 7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79 9781910634622 9781910634639 9781910634653 9781910634660 9781911307303 European Research Council (ERC) EU collection 236 295486 FP7 open access
spellingShingle urban
social media
migration
china
Human migration
Smartphone
Tencent QQ
WeChat
Wang, Xinyuan
Social Media in Industrial China
title Social Media in Industrial China
title_full Social Media in Industrial China
title_fullStr Social Media in Industrial China
title_full_unstemmed Social Media in Industrial China
title_short Social Media in Industrial China
title_sort social media in industrial china
topic urban
social media
migration
china
Human migration
Smartphone
Tencent QQ
WeChat
topic_facet urban
social media
migration
china
Human migration
Smartphone
Tencent QQ
WeChat
url 618832
work_keys_str_mv AT wangxinyuan socialmediainindustrialchina