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This book attempts to document and analyse the complicated role new media play in the adaptation and integration of China's new generation of migrant workers.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Exploratory Communication Studies on How the New Generation of Migrant Workers Adapts to Urban Life
2. Media Mirror Image: The New Generation of Rural Migrant Workers’ Imaginary City Life
3. My Mediatized "Looking-glass Self": Identity Construction Among the New Generation of Rural Migrant Workers
4. Media-driven Planning for Life Among the New Generation of Rural Migrant Workers
5. Escaping Isolated Islands: Interpersonal Communication of the New Generation of Migrant Workers
6. “Opening the Lock and Scaling the Wall": Information Literacy Among the New Generation of Migrant Workers
7. The Media as Capital: Continuing Education Among the New Generation of Migrant Workers
8. Media Support: Professional Adaptation Among the New Generation of Migrant Workers
9. Media Experience: The Leisure Life of the New-Generation of Migrant Workers
10. Blending in With City Lives Through Consumption
11. Ruptures and Bridges: Cultural Identity Among Rural Migrant Workers
About the author
Dr Zheng Xin is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University, China. He has researched extensively in the fields of communication sociology, rural communication studies, youth culture, and applied communication. He has published more than 50 articles, and received a number of awards, including China’s Ministry of Education’s New Century Distinguished Scholar Award.
Summary
This book attempts to document and analyse the complicated role new media play in the adaptation and integration of China’s new generation of migrant workers.
