WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise
Sun, Wanning
WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2022 - 1 online resource
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WeChat (the international version of Weixin), launched in 2012, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants, WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging, engage in group communication and community business activities, produce and distribute news, and access and share information. This book explores a wide range of issues connected to the ways in which WeChat works and is used, across the world among the newest members of the Chinese diaspora. Arguing that digital/social media afford a great degree of individual agency, as well as a collective capacity for sustaining an 'imagined community', the book shows how WeChat's assemblage of infrastructure and regulatory frameworks, technical capabilities, content and sense of community has led to the construction of a particular kind of diasporic Chinese world, at a time marked both by China's rise, and anxiety about Chinese influence in the West.
Open licence
eng
9780367724276 9780367724306 9781003154754
10.4324/9781003154754 doi
Economics, Finance, Business and Management
Industrial arbitration and negotiation
Industrial relations, occupational health and safety
Industry and industrial studies
Interest qualifiers
Migration, immigration and emigration
Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples
Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people
Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests
Social and ethical issues
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
China labour market Migration Russia
WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2022 - 1 online resource
Free-to-read
WeChat (the international version of Weixin), launched in 2012, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants, WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging, engage in group communication and community business activities, produce and distribute news, and access and share information. This book explores a wide range of issues connected to the ways in which WeChat works and is used, across the world among the newest members of the Chinese diaspora. Arguing that digital/social media afford a great degree of individual agency, as well as a collective capacity for sustaining an 'imagined community', the book shows how WeChat's assemblage of infrastructure and regulatory frameworks, technical capabilities, content and sense of community has led to the construction of a particular kind of diasporic Chinese world, at a time marked both by China's rise, and anxiety about Chinese influence in the West.
Open licence
eng
9780367724276 9780367724306 9781003154754
10.4324/9781003154754 doi
Economics, Finance, Business and Management
Industrial arbitration and negotiation
Industrial relations, occupational health and safety
Industry and industrial studies
Interest qualifiers
Migration, immigration and emigration
Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples
Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people
Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests
Social and ethical issues
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
China labour market Migration Russia
