LEADER 02145nam 2200517z- 450 001 9910836795803321 005 20240308205316.0 010 $a1-910634-65-4 035 $a(CKB)5680000000036195 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/26402 035 $a(EXLCZ)995680000000036195 100 $a20202102d2016 |y e 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSocial Media in Industrial China 210 $cUCL Press$d2016 210 1$aLondon :$cUCL Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 electronic resource (236 p.) 225 1 $aWhy We Post 311 $a1-910634-62-X 311 $a9781910634640 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aDescribed 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?. 606 $aSociety & social sciences$2bicssc 606 $aSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography$2bicssc 610 $aurban 610 $asocial media 610 $amigration 610 $achina 610 $aHuman migration 610 $aSmartphone 610 $aTencent QQ 610 $aWeChat 615 7$aSociety & social sciences 615 7$aSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography 700 $aWang$b Xinyuan$4auth$0998501 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910836795803321 996 $aSocial media in industrial China$92290511 997 $aUNINA