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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...
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oapen-20.500.12657-320632023-03-01T10:13:03Z Social Media in Industrial China Wang, Xinyuan urban social media migration china Human migration Smartphone Tencent QQ WeChat bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography 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’. 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2019-01-11 13:45:08 2020-04-01T13:57:26Z 2020-04-01T13:57:26Z 2016 book 618832 OCN: 960895553 9781910634622 9781910634639 9781910634653 9781910634660 9781911307303 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32063 eng Why We Post application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 618832.pdf https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/social-media-in-industrial-china UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781910634646 10.14324/111.9781910634646 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79 9781910634622 9781910634639 9781910634653 9781910634660 9781911307303 European Research Council (ERC) 236 295486 FP7 FP7 Ideas: European Research Council FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific Programme: "Ideas" Implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007 to 2013) open access |
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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’. |
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