Identifying User Relationship on WeChat Money-Gifting Network

Weng, Yunpeng; Chen, Liang; Chen, Xu

doi:10.1109/tkde.2020.3030807

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“…In contrast, WeChat users give digital red packets more frequently and have extended this practice to new scenarios (Wu and Ma, 2017; Xu, 2021). For example, digital red packets can be given to start a conversation in a quiet WeChat group, reconcile conflicts among group members, remind colleagues to check and respond to work-related messages, ask for a favour from an acquaintance, pay a talented writer for online content as a digital reward ( dashang ), split a bill between friends, or express love and care to family members and partners on special days, such as Mother's Day and Chinese Valentine's Day (Xu, 2021; Weng et al, 2020; Wu and Ma, 2017). Consequently, the original cultural meaning of exchanging red packets between family and friends has become blurred through the monetized connectivity of all kinds of relationships.…”

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“…2 These days are ‘considered fit by young people for saying “I love you”’ (Xinhua, 2017; Shen et al, 2020). In Chinese, ‘520’ and ‘I love you’ are homophonic, and lovers tend to give red packets with an amount of 520 yuan to express their love and later post screenshots of either receiving or giving this special kind of red packet (Weng et al, 2020; Xinhua, 2017). WeChat may have modified the feature temporarily to respond to the needs of younger users or the cultural affordances of users, allowing them to use digital red packets to express their love at a particular moment.…”

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From affordances to cultural affordances: An analytic framework for tracing the dynamic interaction among technology, people and culture

Sun

Suthers

2023

Cultures of Science

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This paper proposes a novel framework called ‘cultural affordances’ to examine the dynamic interplay among technology, users and culture, as multilevel and multidirectional interactive networks. The framework includes three dimensions. 1) Cultural affordances of technology describe what technology can offer users and culture in terms of behavioural or cultural changes. 2) Cultural affordances of users describe what users can offer other users, technology and culture in terms of behavioural, technological or cultural changes. 3) Affordances of the cultural describe what culture can offer users and technology in terms of the design and use of technology as well as related changes. To establish the need for a culturally oriented extension to affordance theory, we first revisit Gibson's original definition of affordances of the environment and discuss its significance and limitations, including the need to understand the interplay between technology and users in the digital era. We contend that culture, as an assemblage of all relations and practices, should be included as an indispensable part of affordance theory, and we provide a detailed explanation of the novel, three-dimensional framework of cultural affordances. We then apply the framework to three prior empirical studies and one ongoing study to demonstrate how the framework can be used as an analytic tool to deepen our understanding of the multilevel and multidirectional interplay among technology, users and culture, and we identify related changes, focusing on WeChat. We also discuss how the framework can provide directions for designing new technologies to improve collaborations among users, between users and designers, and between an online platform and the offline world.

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