From Digital Shock to Miniaturised Mobility: International Students’ Digital Journey in China

Abstract

As Asia's largest host country of international students, China's digitial placemaking is impacting on international students’ experience whilst studying and living in the country. This rqualitative study addresses the issue of international students’ transition to the digital environment in China. It draws on the theoretical perspectives of international students’ digital journeys and miniaturised mobilities to inform thematic analysis of artefact-mediated student interviews and social media posts. Findings show that international students’ digital journeys in China are characterised by three modes of digital adaptation including digital shock, digital border crossing and digital approachability. We argue that engaging in these modes of digital adaptation has reconstituted international students’ subjectivity through empowering miniaturised mobility, but also a sense of digital in-betweenness as they operate between two different virtual worlds.

Development trend and strategic positioning of China’s digital trade in the context of the Internet

“…The use of digital technology in economic and social fields has accelerated its penetration, leading to a global 'digital revolution'. Led by the development of the digital economy, digital technology has also accelerated the penetration in the field of global trade, promoting the rapid development of digital trade, and bringing about profound changes in trade methods and trade objects [10]. Literature [11] discusses that data localization has a certain impact on digital trade while protecting network security, so agent-based modeling is used to study the behaviors and attributes of both sides of digital trade under different data localization regimes.…”