02145nam 2200517z- 450 991083679580332120240308205316.01-910634-65-4(CKB)5680000000036195(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26402(EXLCZ)99568000000003619520202102d2016 |y eengurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSocial Media in Industrial ChinaUCL Press2016London :UCL Press,2016.1 electronic resource (236 p.)Why We Post1-910634-62-X 9781910634640 Includes bibliographical references and index.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, ethnographybicsscurbansocial mediamigrationchinaHuman migrationSmartphoneTencent QQWeChatSociety & social sciencesSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnographyWang Xinyuanauth998501MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910836795803321Social media in industrial China2290511UNINA