02705nam 2200505 450 991077209270332120231110215651.01-00-315475-11-003-15475-11-000-57100-910.4324/9781003154754(MiAaPQ)EBC6891340(Au-PeEL)EBL6891340(CKB)21251649500041(OCoLC)1295619903(OCoLC-P)1295619903(FlBoTFG)9781003154754(EXLCZ)992125164950004120221005d2022 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWechat and the Chinese diaspora digital transnationalism in the era of China's rise /edited by Wanning Sun, Haiqing YuAbingdon, Oxon, England ;New York, New York :Routledge,[2022]©20221 online resource (288 pages)Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Includes index.Print version: Sun, Wanning WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2022 9780367724276 "WeChat, launched in 2011, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants, WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging, engage in group communication and community business activities, produce and distribute news, and access and share information. This book explores a wide range of issues connected to the ways in which WeChat works and is used, across the world among the newest members of the Chinese diaspora. Arguing that digital/social media afford a great degree of individual agency, as well as a collective capacity for sustaining an 'imagined community', the book shows how WeChat's assemblage of infrastructure and regulatory frameworks, technical capabilities, content and sense of community has led to the construction of a particular kind of diasporic Chinese world, at a time marked both by China's rise, and anxiety about Chinese influence in the West"--Provided by publisher.Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Online social networksChinaOnline social networks302.30285Sun Wanning1963-Yu Haiqing1970-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910772092703321Wechat and the Chinese diaspora3661563UNINA