WeChat and Distant Family Intergenerational Communication in China: A Study of Online Content Sharing on WeChat

Zhou, Beifan; Gui, Shihui

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6710-5_11

Cited by 9 publications

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“…Many utilized their close personal networks to expand their 'customer base' since Weixin contacts are generally existing social networks such as families and friends. This observation adheres with established knowledge that Weixin is popular among Chinese family members who not only connect with each other online but also forms online family groups (Zhou and Gui, 2017).…”

Section: The Sociality Of Weixinsupporting

confidence: 89%

Buying on Weixin/WeChat: Proposing a sociomaterial approach of platform studies

Peng

Wang

2020

Media, Culture & Society

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This article examines the social-commercial activity of microcommerce ( wei shang), which has become popular on Weixin (WeChat), one of the most popular messenger applications/social app installed on smartphones in China. By drawing on the notion of platform affordances and data collected from mixed methods centered on the analysis of primary and secondary data, we contend that microcommerce embodies Weixin’s structural (political economy) and cultural (social lives and norms) qualities in China. While microcommerce might have emerged from Weixin’s ecosystem, which is defined by corporate interest and state’s regulatory power, the practice of microcommerce is embedded within the traditional Chinese notion of shuren guanxi (familiar, non-stranger social relational) networks. This article puts forward a sociomaterial approach as a possible conceptual complement to the existing political economy approach of platform studies to call for greater attention to the intersection and interaction between the structural arrangements and social conditions of platform media.

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Section: The Sociality Of Weixinsupporting

confidence: 89%

Buying on Weixin/WeChat: Proposing a sociomaterial approach of platform studies

Peng

Wang

2020

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Launched in January 2011, WeChat is currently the fifth most popular social media service globally, with over one billion active users (Statistica 2018). For the highly mobile -both internally and internationally -Chinese population, WeChat is the main channel for distance intergenerational communication (Yu, Huang, and Liu 2017;Zhou and Gui 2017). In a study of Chinese young adults' interactions with their geographically distant parents, Yu et al (2017) identified three different styles of WeChat interaction: conversational (video and voice calls); connected (short, frequent and spontaneous one-to-one chats for both expressive and instrumental goals); and panoptic (family group chats, and performative interaction where the main purpose is to project a sense of positivity to alleviate their parents' concerns).…”

Section: Young Children's Translinguistic and Transnational Communication On Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Young chinese immigrant children’s language and literacy practices on social media: a translanguaging perspective

Zhao

Flewitt

2019

Language and Education

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In this paper, we present a research approach that makes visible how young children in Chinese immigrant families muster their multilingual, multimodal and multisemiotic repertoires as they interact with distant family and friends on social media. The approach brings multimodal social semiotics into conversation with translanguaging to problematize the notion of languages as bounded systems, and to illustrate how emergent multilingual learners deploy their knowledge of the features of different language scripts and modalities to maximise their communicative capacity. We focus on the emergent translanguaging practices of Chinese immigrant children when using WeChat-a popular Chinese social media that is widely used by young families in their everyday language and literacy practices. Reporting on a study of nine immigrant families in southeast London, we home in on one boy aged eight years and his younger brother aged six years, with mixed Chinese (mother) and Portuguese (father) immigrant heritage. Through fine-grained multimodal analysis of online exchanges between the older brother and contacts in their mother's WeChat network, we illustrate the multimodal, translinguistic and polyadic nature of his language use in practice and reflect briefly on the disjuncture between his home uses of multiple languages and his schooling. We also consider how the younger brother is socialised into translanguaging practices by observing and occasionally participating in his older sibling's online chat. The findings address a gap in research knowledge by illustrating how social media can enrich opportunities for young children's emergent translanguaging practices and heritage language learning.

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“…A professional market research firm was employed to distribute an online survey link through WeChat, a Chinese multi‐purpose app. WeChat has emerged as one of the world's most popular social networking platforms (Skavronskaya et al, 2020) and has become an integral part of daily life among Chinese consumers (Lien et al, 2017; Zhou, 2017). WeChat allows researchers to develop high levels of trust and to support sustained interaction with participants to ensure that the data collected are trustworthy (Ma et al, 2019).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

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Experience‐driven well‐being and purchase: An alternative model of memorable wine tourism experiences

Sthapit,

Prentice,

et al. 2024

Journal of Tourism Research

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Wine tourism has several distinctive features that militate against using Kim et al.'s model of memorable tourism experiences to understand its antecedents and consequences. Accordingly, this study adopts an alternative theoretical framework—the stimulus–organism–response theory—to develop an alternative model. Data were collected from visitors to a well‐known vineyard in Yantai, China and structural equation modelling and multiple group analysis were used to analyse them. The results suggest that experience co‐creation, sensory experience, experiential satisfaction and appealing winescape are significant and positive antecedents of a memorable wine tourism experience, while eudaimonic well‐being and wine purchase intention are significant and positive outcome variables. Visit frequency was found to be a moderating variable linking the winescape to memorable wine tourism experiences. Those who travel to the region frequently form a bond with the winescape that not only contributes to their well‐being but also stimulates their future intentions to purchase its wine.

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WeChat and Distant Family Intergenerational Communication in China: A Study of Online Content Sharing on WeChat

Cited by 9 publications

References 37 publications

Buying on Weixin/WeChat: Proposing a sociomaterial approach of platform studies

Buying on Weixin/WeChat: Proposing a sociomaterial approach of platform studies

Young chinese immigrant children’s language and literacy practices on social media: a translanguaging perspective

Experience‐driven well‐being and purchase: An alternative model of memorable wine tourism experiences

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