Unpacking and describing interaction on Chinese WeChat: A methodological approach

Sandel, Todd L.; Ou, Chuyue; Wangchuk, Dorji; Ju, Bei; Duque, M.

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2018.08.011

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“…In this study, stamps are also categorised as 'onomatopoetic words or emoji' . 7 It should be noted that onomatopoetic words and emoji are also quite often used among Chinese university students (Sandel et al, 2019) and function in a similar way to how they are used in Japanese requests, although, in this study, the Chinese participants used fewer emoji than their Japanese counterparts.…”

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“…However, the field has focused primarily on English. Although there is a growing body of work on social media practices in Chinese (e.g., Sandel, Ou, Wangchuk, Ju, and Duque, 2019;Ren and Guo, 2020) and Japanese (e.g., Kádár and Fukushima, 2018), many more works are needed. Therefore, based on the above research gaps, the current study aims to investigate requests in Chinese and Japanese on social media.…”

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Comparison between Chinese and Japanese Social Media Requests

Ren

Fukushima

2020

Contrastive Pragmatics

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This study investigates Chinese and Japanese requests in social media communication, focusing on the requests made between university students. The data consisted of 300 social media requests made by 30 Chinese university students and 304 social media requests made by 30 Japanese university students, respectively. The findings revealed that the Chinese and Japanese participants displayed more similarities than differences regarding the request strategy that they preferred to use among peers on social media. Both groups employed direct requests the most frequently, followed by conventionally indirect requests. Non-conventionally indirect requests were used the least frequently by both groups. The Japanese participants employed twice as many external modifiers as their Chinese counterparts. In contrast, the Chinese participants used considerably more lexical/phrasal internal modifiers than the Japanese participants. The findings are discussed in relation to factors such as social distance, living arrangements and new technologies.

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Comparison between Chinese and Japanese Social Media Requests

Ren

Fukushima

2020

Contrastive Pragmatics

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“…The unique technological features of WeChat have played an important role as it transmits information in vivid, multimedia forms; simplifies money transfer procedures through its digital "red packet" configuration; 2 and allows real-time video conversations that include various communicating parties. In other words, WeChat has enabled its immigrant users to perform the customary tasks of emotional connection and companionship to some extent, leading to the digitization of the global Chinese diaspora (Sandel, Ou, Wangchuk, Ju, & Duque, 2019).…”

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Chinese first, woman second: Social media and the cultural identity of female immigrants

Chen

Tian

Chang

2021

Asian Journal of Women's Studies

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Based on the conceptual framework of digital diaspora, this article explores the role social media plays in the development of migrant cultural identity and its political potential among digital forms. Using in-depth interviews and online observations, it analyzes the motives, purposes, strategies and outcomes of the use of WeChat, a leading Chinese social media platform, by Chinese female immigrants in Switzerland. Through thematic analysis, the article distills three patterns of WeChat usage by these women. Firstly, it notes how they make use of the technological affordances of WeChat to remain connected with their native culture. Secondly, it explains how, after acquisition of economic capital, they are able to forge a steady intersectional identity in their new host country. And finally, it problematizes their strategy to strive for social equality.

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“…Instead of exchanging printed name cards with newly met acquaintances, it is more common in China today to use WeChat to scan each others' QR codes, and add each other to a contact list on the app. Then with WeChat users can send messages, share pictures, and make audio or video phone calls (Sandel, Ou, Wangchuk, Ju, & Duque, 2018). Furthermore, using WeChat or Alipay, users can make purchases from almost any vendor.…”

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“…The designers of WeChat, however, added a range of new and/or improved features to the app. Thus, with WeChat users can send text, pictures, exchange short, 60-second audio files and make audio or video phone calls (Sandel et al, 2018). Another popular feature of WeChat is the 'Moments' function, similar to Facebook or Instagram; this allows users to post and respond to pictures and accompanying text, showing the important 'moments' of a user's life .…”

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Understanding chinese internet and social media : the innovative and creative affordances of technology, language and culture

Sandel

Fitzgerald

2019

Cahiers du CLSL

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In this chapter we set out to briefly sketch out a description of Chinese internetculture from its historical development through to some of its current characteristics.From the early roll out of the internet through to the use of social media Chineseinternet cutlture should be understood as emerging from the interplay of a numberof forces: technological changes, software development, user-generated interactionalpractices, and government censorship. The discussion goes onto highlight howincreasingly divergent forms of Chinese social media use provide a rich source ofanalysis of new and innovative practices as well as an awareness of the distinct contextof communicative technological and social environment of it its 772 million users.

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Unpacking and describing interaction on Chinese WeChat: A methodological approach

Cited by 56 publications

References 20 publications

Comparison between Chinese and Japanese Social Media Requests

Comparison between Chinese and Japanese Social Media Requests

Chinese first, woman second: Social media and the cultural identity of female immigrants

Understanding chinese internet and social media : the innovative and creative affordances of technology, language and culture

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