01810 am 22003733u 450 991014935890332120230831173753.01-910634-64-610.14324/111.9781910634646(CKB)3710000000900162(OAPEN)618832(EXLCZ)99371000000090016220190111d2016 uy enguruu#---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSocial media in industrial China /Xinyuan WangLondon :UCL Press,2016.1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) illustrationsPrint version: 9781910634639 Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their use of social media. It was here she witnessed a second migration taking place: a movement from offline to online. As Wang argues, this is not simply a convenient analogy but represents the convergence of two phenomena as profound and consequential as each other, where the online world now provides a home for the migrant workers who feel otherwise ‘homeless’.Society & social sciencesbicsscSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnographybicsscSociety & social sciencesSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography302.23/10951Wang Xinyuan998501UkMaJRUBOOK9910149358903321Social media in industrial China2290511UNINA