TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wang, Xinyuan
AB  - Described 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’.
DO  - 10.14324/111.9781910634646
ID  - OAPEN ID: 618832
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 960895553
KW  - urban
KW  - social media
KW  - migration
KW  - china
KW  - Human migration
KW  - Smartphone
KW  - Tencent QQ
KW  - WeChat
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/4b9d1b66-3cf9-4716-89f6-6e3c113af3f2/618832.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32063
PB  - UCL Press
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9781910634622
SN  - 9781910634639
SN  - 9781910634653
SN  - 9781910634660
SN  - 9781911307303
TI  - Social Media in Industrial Chinanull
ER  - 
