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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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UCL Press
2016
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| Series: | Why We Post
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| Online Access: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (236 p.) |
| ISBN: | 111.9781910634646 9781910634622 9781910634639 9781910634653 9781910634660 9781911307303 |
| Access: | Open Access |