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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 between 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.
List of contents
Foreword
Michael Keane
1. Chinese social media today
Mike Kent, Katie Ellis and Jian Xu
Part I: Chinese Social Media and the Public
2. Micro-philanthropy and new grassroots associations: Social media and the rights discourse in China.
Haiqing Yu
3.Social media and legitimization tactics of grassroots NGOs in China: A case study of Love Save Pneumoconiosis
Dianlin Huang
4. The "Making" of online celebrity – A case Study of Chinese rural same-sex male couple Anwei and Yebin
Tianyang Zhou and Lianrui Jia
5. Populist sentiments and digital ethos in the social media space: Revelations of Weibo celebrities in China
Zixue Tai, Xiaolong Liu and Jiang Liang
Part II: Chinese Social Media and (Re)Presentation
6. Framing food safety issues in China: The interplay of official discourse and civil discourse
Yang Wang
7. Face-work on social media: The presentation of self on Renren and Facebook
Xiaoli Tian
8. RenRen and social capital in contemporary China
Naziat Choudhury and David Holmes
Part III: Chinese Social Media and Disability
9. WeChat and the Voice Donor campaign: an example of ‘doing good’ on social media
Mike Kent, Katie Ellis, Joy Zhang, and He Zhang
10. Accessibility in China: a Peep at a Leopard through a tube
Yao Ding and G. Anthony Giannoumis
11. The Accessibility of Chinese Social Media Applications: A heuristic evaluation of WeChat app
Weiqin Chen, Way Kiat Bong and Nan Li
Part IV: Chinese Social Media in Greater China and Overseas
12. From (anti-mainland) sinophobia and shibboleths to mobilisation on a Taiwanese message board
Joshua Cader
13. The Chineseness of Chinese Internet companies
About the author
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
Summary
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.
