Chinese Social Media: Social, Cultural, and Political Implications

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
Foreword
1 Chinese Social Media Today
PART I: Chinese Social Media and the Public
	2 Social Media and the Experience Economy in China’s Microphilanthropy
	3 Social Media and Activism of Grassroots NGOs in China: A Case Study of Love Save Pneumoconiosis (LSP)
	4 The ‘Making’ of an Online Celebrity: A Case Study of Chinese Rural Gay Couple An Wei and Wu Yebin
	5 Populist Sentiments and Digital Ethos in the Social Media Space: Revelations of Weibo Celebrities in China
PART II: Chinese Social Media and (Re)Presentation
	6 Framing Food Safety Issues in China: The Negotiation between ‘Official Discourse’ in Newspapers and ‘Civil Discourse’ on Weibo
	7 Face-work on Social Media in China: The Presentation of Self on RenRen and Facebook
	8 RenRen and Social Capital in Contemporary China
PART III: Chinese Social Media and Disability
	9 WeChat and the Voice Donor Campaign: An Example of ‘Doing Good’ on Social Media
	10 Information and Communications Technology and Social Media Accessibility in China: A Peep at a Leopard through a Tube?
	11 The Accessibility of Chinese Social Media Applications: A Heuristic Evaluation of the WeChat App
PART IV: Chinese Social Media in Greater China and Overseas
	12 From (Anti-mainland) Sinophobia and Shibboleths to Mobilisation on a Taiwanese Message Board
	13 Chinese Internet Companies go Global: Online Traffic, Framing and Open Issues
	14 The Global Expansion of China-based Social Media Platforms and Its Dynamics in the Australian Context
PART V: Chinese Social Media Critique
	15 Re-imagining Guangzhou on Sina Weibo: Geo-identity and Chinese Social Media
	16 The Decline of Sina Weibo: A Technological, Political and Market Analysis
List of Contributors
Index