Social media in industrial China

Wang, Xinyuan

2016

UCL Press

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’.

Social media -- China

Migrant labor -- China -- Social conditions

PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology

SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural

English

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