Social media in industrial China
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Title (Dublin Core)
Social media in industrial China
Creator (Dublin Core)
Wang, Xinyuan
Date (Dublin Core)
2016
Publisher (Dublin Core)
UCL Press
Description (Dublin Core)
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’.
Subject (Dublin Core)
Social media -- China
Migrant labor -- China -- Social conditions
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
Language (Dublin Core)
English
isbn (Bibliographic Ontology)
9781910634646
