Publications
Publication details [#67038]
Wang, Yini and Judith Sandner. 2019. Like a “Frog in a well”? An ethnographic study of Chinese rural women’s social media practices through the WeChat platform. Chinese Journal of Communication 12 (3) : 324–339.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
communication | emotion | ethnography | internet | platform | rural women | social media use | wechat
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This study uses an ethnographic fieldwork methodology and a social constructionist theoretical framework to explore rural Chinese women’s daily experiences in using WeChat. The findings provide evidence of, among others, their knowledge-building and emotive communicating through using WeChat.