Micro-blogging Memories: Weibo And Collective Remembering In Contemporary China (palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
by Eileen Le Han /
2016 / English / EPUB
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This book offers an in-depth account of social media,
journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis
of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism
of transitional China in a globalizing world.
This book offers an in-depth account of social media,
journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis
of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism
of transitional China in a globalizing world.
How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing
age of social media?
How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing
age of social media?
Eileen Le Han examines how various kinds of public events are
shared, debated, and their historical significance and
worthiness of remembrance highlighted on Weibo. Journalism
plays a significant part in mobilizing collective remembering
of these events, in a society with rapidly changing topics on
the platform, the tightening state control, and nationalism on
the rise.
Eileen Le Han examines how various kinds of public events are
shared, debated, and their historical significance and
worthiness of remembrance highlighted on Weibo. Journalism
plays a significant part in mobilizing collective remembering
of these events, in a society with rapidly changing topics on
the platform, the tightening state control, and nationalism on
the rise.
The first five years of Weibo reflect a dramatic change in
Chinese society, where journalists, media professionals, and
opinion leaders in other fields of expertise, together with
ordinary citizens directly affected by these changes in
everyday life collaborate to witness the rapid social
transition.
The first five years of Weibo reflect a dramatic change in
Chinese society, where journalists, media professionals, and
opinion leaders in other fields of expertise, together with
ordinary citizens directly affected by these changes in
everyday life collaborate to witness the rapid social
transition.