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Publication details [#67040]

Sandel, Todd L., Bei Ju and Hannah Thinyane. 2019. WeChat use of mainland Chinese dual migrants in daily border crossing. Chinese Journal of Communication 12 (4).
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This inquiry examines the daily affordances of WeChat in the cross-border lives of dual migrants from the Chinese mainland. By framing these dual migrants’ usage of WeChat within the affordances of social media, this social networking site functions as a digital mediated space that provides migrants with communal solidarity, social interaction, access to information, and, in some cases, economic benefits.