Social Media in Industrial China
'Life outside the mobile phone is unbearable.' Lily, 19, factory workerDescribed 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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-910634-65-3
- EAN: 9781910634653
- Produktnummer: 20684061
- Verlag: UCL Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 236 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 43'593 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Xinyuan Wang is Postdoctoral Researcher at UCL.
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