Social Media in Rural China : Social Networks and Moral Frameworks /
China's distinctive social media platforms have gained notable popularity among the nation's vast number of internet users, but has China's countryside been 'left behind' in this communication revolution? Tom McDonald spent 15 months living in a small rural Chinese community...
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London :
UCL Press,
2016.
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Sommario:
- 1. Introduction and field site: down to the countryside
- 2. The social media landscape: visibility and economy
- 3. Visual postings: idealising family-love, marriage and 'little treasures'
- 4. Relationships: circles of friends, encounters with strangers
- 5. Moral accumulation: collecting credits on social media
- 6. Broader relations: the family, the state and social media
- 7. Conclusion: circles and strangers, media moralities and 'the Chinese internet'
- Appendix. Methodology.