[ecrea] Online Book Launch: Social Media in Industrial China and Social Media in Rural China (UCL Why We Post)

Online Book Launch: Social Media in Industrial China and Social Media in 
Rural China

Date: Tuesday 13 Sep 2016

Time:

*         London: 3 pm - 4 pm BST (UTC+1 hour)

*         New York: 10 am - 11 am EDT (UTC-4 hours)

*         Los Angeles: 7 am - 8 am PDT (UTC-7 hours)

*         Hong Kong: 10 pm - 11 pm HKT (UTC+8 hours)

Register today: http://bit.ly/2b1mVuA

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Join Professor Daniel Miller (UCL Anthropology), Xinyuan Wang (UCL 
Anthropology) and Tom McDonald (HKU Sociology) for a live and 
interactive discussion about UCL's groundbreaking Why We Post project. 
Streamed on Youtube, and hosted by HKU Sociology, this exciting 
discussion will mark the launch of two brand new Open Access volumes 
Social Media in Industrial China (UCL Press) and Social Media in Rural 
China (UCL Press), which detail they key findings of the Chinese section 
of the UCL Why We Post project.

Put your own questions to the authors, and hear them discuss their 
experiences of conducting ethnographic fieldwork on social media use in 
China, writing their books, and how the unique case of China has 
implications for understanding social media use around the world.

Register today: http://bit.ly/2b1mVuA

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About the books

Wang's Social Media in Industrial China describes social media's role in 
the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese 
people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in 
urban areas. Wang describes  a second migration taking place: a movement 
from offline to online. As Wang argues, this is not simply a convenient 
analogy but represents the convergence of two phenomena as profound and 
consequential as each other, where the online world now provides a home 
for the migrant workers who feel otherwise 'homeless'. Find out more: 
http://bit.ly/2b1qAT7

McDonald's Social Media in Rural China argues that social media allows 
rural Chinese people to extend and transform their social relationships 
by deepening already existing connections with friends known through 
their school, work or village, while also experimenting with completely 
new forms of relationships through online interactions with strangers. 
By juxtaposing these seemingly opposed relations, rural social media 
users are able to use these technologies to understand, capitalise on 
and challenge the notions of morality that underlie rural life. Find out 
more: http://bit.ly/2b3w3sK

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