LEADER 02705nam 2200505 450 001 9910772092703321 005 20231110215651.0 010 $a1-00-315475-1 010 $a1-003-15475-1 010 $a1-000-57100-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9781003154754 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6891340 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6891340 035 $a(CKB)21251649500041 035 $a(OCoLC)1295619903 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1295619903 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781003154754 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921251649500041 100 $a20221005d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aWechat and the Chinese diaspora $edigital transnationalism in the era of China's rise /$fedited by Wanning Sun, Haiqing Yu 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon, England ;$aNew York, New York :$cRoutledge,$d[2022] 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (288 pages) 225 1 $aMedia, Culture and Social Change in Asia 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Sun, Wanning WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora Milton : Taylor & Francis Group,c2022 9780367724276 330 $a"WeChat, launched in 2011, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants, WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging, engage in group communication and community business activities, produce and distribute news, and access and share information. This book explores a wide range of issues connected to the ways in which WeChat works and is used, across the world among the newest members of the Chinese diaspora. Arguing that digital/social media afford a great degree of individual agency, as well as a collective capacity for sustaining an 'imagined community', the book shows how WeChat's assemblage of infrastructure and regulatory frameworks, technical capabilities, content and sense of community has led to the construction of a particular kind of diasporic Chinese world, at a time marked both by China's rise, and anxiety about Chinese influence in the West"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aMedia, Culture and Social Change in Asia 606 $aOnline social networks$zChina 615 0$aOnline social networks 676 $a302.30285 702 $aSun$b Wanning$f1963- 702 $aYu$b Haiqing$f1970- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910772092703321 996 $aWechat and the Chinese diaspora$93661563 997 $aUNINA