Social media in industrial China / Xinyuan Wang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Xinyuan, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

London : UCL Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English.

System Details:

text file

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’.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781910634646

1910634646

OCLC:

960895553

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access