<i>Guanxi</i> 2.0: the exchange of <i>likes</i> in social networking sites

Au, Anson

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2020.1748091

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“…Some research has also been done on the different aspects of social etiquette online, although they have not been framed as such. For example, respect as a form of etiquette is exemplified when Facebook and Instagram users reciprocate “likes” (Au 2020). Elegance is demonstrated through the tendency of North American social networking site (SNS) users to present themselves positively online, and humility is often practiced by East Asian SNS users (Lee‐Won et al 2014).…”

Section: Online Interaction Privacy Management and Social Etiquettementioning

confidence: 99%

An Online Acquaintance Community: The Emergence of Chinese Virtual Civility

Tian

Guo

2021

Symbolic Interaction

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How is social etiquette performed when offline interpersonal interactions are mediated online? Sixty semi-structured interviews with WeChat users, China's most popular social media platform, show that the app's technical designs facilitated a set of online etiquette rules which reproduced those of acquaintance communities. Three dimensions of social etiquette rules were considered and observed: respect, elegance, and tidiness. Users honored the face of others and avoided causing others to lose face, often presented a positive but restrained self-image, and strived to preserve the tidiness of the online public space by avoiding the sharing of and exposing others to "negative energy".

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Section: Online Interaction Privacy Management and Social Etiquettementioning

confidence: 99%

An Online Acquaintance Community: The Emergence of Chinese Virtual Civility

Tian

Guo

2021

Symbolic Interaction

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“…Omar Lizardo (2006); Vaisey and Lizardo (2010) finds that popular culture consumption positively impacts the density of one's network with weak ties. Building on this premise, we can observe that the myriad satellites hosted by SNSs representing special interests on SNSs (e.g., pages, groups, and blogs of interests, products, services, and public figures) serve as cultural artifacts for people to participate in (through likes) to express their own values and, by the same token, infer those of others' (Au 2021). Furthermore, given how transitive and open information about users' interests are on SNSs, the use of cultural interests as indicators of values should be magnified in tie-formation decisions.…”

Section: Theorizing Tie-formation In Sns Network: Toward Assortation ...mentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Using a survey experiment on friend-matching among university students, Huang et al (2020) provide an important illustration of how people fasten themselves to social trait preferences (e.g., how reliable, generous, supportive, and independent an alter is) when networking with them, a pattern they argue to be exacerbated on SNSs. Rules deriving from guanxi culture come into play as benchmarks and guideposts for this performance, such as to inform etiquettes of respect, reciprocity, and reputation (Au 2021;Tian and Guo 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For Claire, the decision to self-censor personal information was bound up by trust issues. Like how Western SNS users self-censor on sensitive topics for fear of backlash from strangers (Marwick and Boyd 2010), Chinese SNS users self-censor personal information for fear of it being poorly received by strangers (Au 2021), but also because of fear of offending friends they know as a possible breach of trust.…”

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Guanxi in an age of digitalization: toward assortation and value homophily in new tie-formation

2022

J. Chin. Sociol.

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How do people form personal ties? A consensus holds in sociological and social network scholarship that in-person networks are dominated by status homophily and that guanxi networks rely extensively on balance. This article argues that social networking sites (SNSs) reconceptualize the character of homophily and tie-formation altogether in guanxi networks. Drawing on 50 semi-structured interviews with Hong Kong youth from 2017 to 2020, this article examines how the technical capabilities of SNSs and principles of guanxi culture come together to erode status boundaries, create access to larger networks, and cause spillovers of information and tie strength. As a result, the basis of tie-formation in guanxi networks on SNSs shifts from balance to assortation and status homophily to value homophily. In this transformed calculus of tie-formation, two typologies of values rise to the fore: substantive values that reflect opinions and interests, as well as structural values that reflect networkability.

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“…Gleaning from digital sociology on East Asian networks that hearken to the significance of online networking sites for social life (Au, 2021), it was determined that bounded digital spaces of interaction are a particularly important anchor for topic discussion and group memberships in South Korea. This is evinced by faster flows of information among members of local social networks and with broader reach to a larger proportion of the network (Barbalet, 2016).…”

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An Ethnographic Toolkit for Studying the Networking Pathways of Hard-to-Reach Populations: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery Consumers in South Korea

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This article develops a novel ethnographic toolkit for examining the networking pathways that hard-to-reach populations use to socially survive. The toolkit consists of two sampling strategies (snowball and purposive sampling) and three data collection practices (role shuttling, site shuttling, and autoethnography). This article illustrates the applications of the toolkit in an ethnography of South Korean cosmetic surgery clinics and digital forums from 2018 to 2019 by uncovering the role that furtive networks play in facilitating cosmetic surgery consumption. Longitudinal in nature, the toolkit excels in examining the network’s dynamism, informal hierarchy, and the meaning-making and networking pathways that allow members of a hard-to-reach population like cosmetic surgery consumers in South Korea to participate in stigmatized practices. In the hard-to-reach population of surgery enthusiasts, I find that surgery is purchased by consumers through persuasive reconstructions of the meanings of success, body, and self by an elusive network of clinicians, who are introduced by an ever-changing roster of past cosmetic surgery consumers perceived to be high-status.

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Guanxi 2.0: the exchange of likes in social networking sites

Cited by 13 publications

References 33 publications

An Online Acquaintance Community: The Emergence of Chinese Virtual Civility

An Online Acquaintance Community: The Emergence of Chinese Virtual Civility

Guanxi in an age of digitalization: toward assortation and value homophily in new tie-formation

An Ethnographic Toolkit for Studying the Networking Pathways of Hard-to-Reach Populations: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery Consumers in South Korea

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