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Chinese Social Media This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media, internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the Anglophone paradigm. The collection focuses on the intersections be- tween Chinese language social media and disability, celebrity, sexuality, interpersonal communication, charity, diaspora, public health, political activism and non- governmental organisations (NGOs). The book is not only rich in its theoretical perspectives but also in its methodologies. Contributors use both qualitative and quantitative methods to study Chinese social media and its social–cultural–political implications, such as case studies, in-depth interviews, participatory observations, discourse analysis, content analysis and data mining. Mike Kent is head of department and a senior lecturer in the Internet Studies Department at Curtin University, Australia. Katie Ellis is a senior research fellow in the Internet Studies Department and convenor of the Critical Disability Studies Research Network at Curtin University, Australia. Jian Xu is a research fellow at the School of Communications and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Australia. Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia Edited by Dal Yong Jin Simon Fraser University 1 Chinese Social Media Social, Cultural, and Political Implications Edited by Mike Kent, Katie Ellis and Jian Xu Chinese Social Media Social, Cultural, and Political Implications Edited by Mike Kent, Katie Ellis and Jian Xu First published 2018 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 Taylor & Francis The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data CIP data has been applied for. ISBN: 978-1-138-06477-5 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-16021-4 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by codeMantra To our colleagues at Curtin University in the Digital China Lab, and the China Writing Centre. This page intentionally left blank Contents List of Figures and Tables xi Acknowledgements xiii Foreword xv MIChAEl KEANE 1 Chinese Social Media Today 1 MIKE KENT, KATIE EllIS AND JIAN XU PART I Chinese Social Media and the Public 7 2 Social Media and the Experience Economy in China’s Microphilanthropy 9 hAIqING YU 3 Social Media and Activism of Grassroots NGOs in China: A Case Study of Love Save Pneumoconiosis (LSP) 22 DIANlIN hUANG 4 The ‘Making’ of an Online Celebrity: A Case Study of Chinese Rural Gay Couple An Wei and Wu Yebin 42 lIANRUI JIA AND TIANYANG ZhOU 5 Populist Sentiments and Digital Ethos in the Social Media Space: Revelations of Weibo Celebrities in China 59 ZIXUE TAI, JING lIANG, AND XIAOlONG lIU viii Contents PART II Chinese Social Media and (Re)Presentation 75 6 Framing Food Safety Issues in China: The Negotiation between ‘Official Discourse’ in Newspapers and ‘Civil Discourse’ on Weibo 77 YANG WANG 7 Face-work on Social Media in China: The Presentation of Self on RenRen and Facebook 92 XIAOlI TIAN 8 RenRen and Social Capital in Contemporary China 106 DAvID hOlMES AND NAZIAT ChOUDhURY PART III Chinese Social Media and Disability 117 9 WeChat and the Voice Donor Campaign: An Example of ‘Doing Good’ on Social Media 119 MIKE KENT, KATIE EllIS, hE ZhANG AND DANJING ZhANG 10 Information and Communications Technology and Social Media Accessibility in China: A Peep at a Leopard through a Tube? 130 YAO DING AND G. ANThONY GIANNOUMIS 11 The Accessibility of Chinese Social Media Applications: A Heuristic Evaluation of the WeChat App 144 WEIqIN ChEN, WAY KIAT BONG, AND NAN lI PART IV Chinese Social Media in Greater China and Overseas 161 12 From (Anti-mainland) Sinophobia and Shibboleths to Mobilisation on a Taiwanese Message Board 163 JOShUA CADER 13 Chinese Internet Companies go Global: Online Traffic, Framing and Open Issues 175 GIANlUIGI NEGRO Contents ix 14 The Global Expansion of China-based Social Media Platforms and Its Dynamics in the Australian Context 191 JIAJIE lU PART V Chinese Social Media Critique 207 15 Re-imagining Guangzhou on Sina Weibo: Geo-identity and Chinese Social Media 209 WIlFRED YANG WANG 16 The Decline of Sina Weibo: A Technological, Political and Market Analysis 221 JONAThAN BENNEY AND JIAN XU List of Contributors 237 Index 243
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