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This book analyzes the risk cultures in China that have emerged
from the entanglement of new communication technologies and
financial markets, examining the role that digital media play in
Asian modernity and offering an alternative narrative to that of
the West. The book illustrates the impact of exclusively Chinese
digital media on power dynamics within risk definition, arguing
that information and communication technologies (ICTs) empower
individuals, enabling them to compete with an expert-oriented risk
culture controlled by Government- and banker-led media outlets.
With struggles, competitions, compromises, and confrontations,
major communicators in financial world are collectively producing
risk cultures based on interpersonal relations instead of
contractual obligations, in which insider information is valued
over professional analysis. Meanwhile, investors are trapped in a
risk culture paradox that they themselves have produced, as they
attempt to take advantage of other actors' uncertainties and
eventually produce risks for the entire market.
This book analyzes the risk cultures in China that have emerged
from the entanglement of new communication technologies and
financial markets, examining the role that digital media play in
Asian modernity and offering an alternative narrative to that of
the West. The book illustrates the impact of exclusively Chinese
digital media on power dynamics within risk definition, arguing
that information and communication technologies (ICTs) empower
individuals, enabling them to compete with an expert-oriented risk
culture controlled by Government- and banker-led media outlets.
With struggles, competitions, compromises, and confrontations,
major communicators in financial world are collectively producing
risk cultures based on interpersonal relations instead of
contractual obligations, in which insider information is valued
over professional analysis. Meanwhile, investors are trapped in a
risk culture paradox that they themselves have produced, as they
attempt to take advantage of other actors' uncertainties and
eventually produce risks for the entire market.
App designers dream of creating a platform that users never want to
leave, that keeps them glued forever - a platform that is "sticky".
Over 846 million WeChat users leave text and voice messages, share
life moments, play games, use stickers, purchase rail and flight
tickets, shop online, pay utilities and bills, transfer money to
friends, and even donate to charity without leaving WeChat, the
super-sticky platform. The Economist called WeChat "one app to rule
them all", and as it starts to gain global appeal, it is rewriting
the rules for social media platforms. 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 and
QQ, two other popular social media platforms in China, and other
Western social media platforms.
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