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Super-Sticky Wechat and Chinese Society.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Emerald Points SeriesPublisher: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (89 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781787439443
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Super-Sticky Wechat and Chinese SocietyDDC classification:
  • 302.30285
LOC classification:
  • HM621-656
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- I.1. Rise of a mega-platform -- I.2. The super-sticky WeChat -- I.3. How we study WeChat -- I.4. Book Structure -- Notes -- Chapter 1 A Silver-Spoon App: WeChat, Tencent and the Mobile Revolution -- 1.1. Introduction: the old dream for a mega-platform -- 1.2. Mobile culture in China: QQ, Tencent and social media -- 1.2.1. The Promise and Pitfalls of the Golden Platform -- 1.3. WeChat's Role in Business Map of Tencent -- 1.4. WeChat on the Political Map of Chinese Government -- 1.5. Conclusion: Selective All-Inclusiveness -- Chapter 2 Super-Sticky Design and Everyday Cultures -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. A social and visual walkie-talkie -- 2.3. An informational and service bazaar -- 2.4. A messaging and scanning wallet -- 2.4.1. The Glue of a Virtual Wallet -- 2.4.2. The Tipping Dispute: An Epitome of the Clashes of Platform Infrastructures -- 2.5. Conclusion: technological disruption is not the right question -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Eventful WeChat -- 3.1. Social Events on Chinese Social Media -- 3.2. Supplementing, Extending and Initiating: Social Events on WeChat -- 3.3. WeChat as Supplement: Peter Liang and Online Activism among Chinese Americans -- 3.4. WeChat the Extender: Wei Zexi and the Aftermath of a Deathly Scandal -- 3.5. WeChat the Initiator: Who is Fan Yusu, and Why Do People Care? -- 3.6. Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Conclusion: Super-sticky WeChat and the Global Society -- 4.1. A Modern Chinese Social Technology on Exhibit -- 4.2. WeChat-ise Everyday Life? -- 4.3. Global Influence of the Super-Sticky Model -- 4.4. Social Media at Crossroads -- Notes -- Appendix -- A Timeline of WeChat (from November 2010 to January 2018) -- References -- Sources for the WeChat timeline English source -- English source.
Chinese sources -- Index.
Summary: This book provides a balanced and nuanced study of how the super-sticky WeChat platform interweaves into the fabric of Chinese social, cultural, and political life. It keeps the wider global and national social media landscape in view and compares and contrasts WeChat with Weibo, QQ and other Western social media platforms.
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Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- I.1. Rise of a mega-platform -- I.2. The super-sticky WeChat -- I.3. How we study WeChat -- I.4. Book Structure -- Notes -- Chapter 1 A Silver-Spoon App: WeChat, Tencent and the Mobile Revolution -- 1.1. Introduction: the old dream for a mega-platform -- 1.2. Mobile culture in China: QQ, Tencent and social media -- 1.2.1. The Promise and Pitfalls of the Golden Platform -- 1.3. WeChat's Role in Business Map of Tencent -- 1.4. WeChat on the Political Map of Chinese Government -- 1.5. Conclusion: Selective All-Inclusiveness -- Chapter 2 Super-Sticky Design and Everyday Cultures -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. A social and visual walkie-talkie -- 2.3. An informational and service bazaar -- 2.4. A messaging and scanning wallet -- 2.4.1. The Glue of a Virtual Wallet -- 2.4.2. The Tipping Dispute: An Epitome of the Clashes of Platform Infrastructures -- 2.5. Conclusion: technological disruption is not the right question -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Eventful WeChat -- 3.1. Social Events on Chinese Social Media -- 3.2. Supplementing, Extending and Initiating: Social Events on WeChat -- 3.3. WeChat as Supplement: Peter Liang and Online Activism among Chinese Americans -- 3.4. WeChat the Extender: Wei Zexi and the Aftermath of a Deathly Scandal -- 3.5. WeChat the Initiator: Who is Fan Yusu, and Why Do People Care? -- 3.6. Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Conclusion: Super-sticky WeChat and the Global Society -- 4.1. A Modern Chinese Social Technology on Exhibit -- 4.2. WeChat-ise Everyday Life? -- 4.3. Global Influence of the Super-Sticky Model -- 4.4. Social Media at Crossroads -- Notes -- Appendix -- A Timeline of WeChat (from November 2010 to January 2018) -- References -- Sources for the WeChat timeline English source -- English source.

Chinese sources -- Index.

This book provides a balanced and nuanced study of how the super-sticky WeChat platform interweaves into the fabric of Chinese social, cultural, and political life. It keeps the wider global and national social media landscape in view and compares and contrasts WeChat with Weibo, QQ and other Western social media platforms.

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