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WeChat (the international version of Weixin), launched in 2012, 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.
This book examines the role played by the media in China s
cultural transformation in the early years of the 21st century. In
contrast to the traditional view that sees the Chinese media as
nothing more than a tool of communist propaganda, it demonstrates
that the media is integral to China s changing culture in the age
of globalization, whilst also being part and parcel of the State
and its project of re-imagining national identity that is essential
to the post-socialist reform agenda. It describes how the
Party-state can effectively use media events to pull social,
cultural and political resources and forces together in the name of
national rejuvenation. However, it also illustrates how non-state
actors can also use reporting of media events to dispute official
narratives and advance their own interests and perspectives. It
discusses the implications of this interplay between state and
non-state actors in the Chinese media for conceptions of identity,
citizenship and ethics, identifying the areas of mutual
accommodation and appropriation, as well as those of conflict and
contestation. It explores these themes with detailed analysis of
four important media spectacles: the media events surrounding the
new millennium celebrations; the news reporting of SARS; the media
stories about AIDS and SARS; and the media campaign war between the
Chinese state and the Falun Gong movement.
This book examines the role played by the media in China's cultural
transformation in the early years of the 21st century. In contrast
to the traditional view that sees the Chinese media as nothing more
than a tool of communist propaganda, it demonstrates that the media
is integral to China's changing culture in the age of
globalization, whilst also being part and parcel of the State and
its project of re-imagining national identity that is essential to
the post-socialist reform agenda. It describes how the Party-state
can effectively use media events to pull social, cultural and
political resources and forces together in the name of national
rejuvenation. However, it also illustrates how non-state actors can
also use reporting of media events to dispute official narratives
and advance their own interests and perspectives. It discusses the
implications of this interplay between state and non-state actors
in the Chinese media for conceptions of identity, citizenship and
ethics, identifying the areas of mutual accommodation and
appropriation, as well as those of conflict and contestation. It
explores these themes with detailed analysis of four important
'media spectacles': the media events surrounding the new millennium
celebrations; the news reporting of SARS; the media stories about
AIDS and SARS; and the media campaign war between the Chinese state
and the Falun Gong movement.
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