Super-Sticky Wechat and Chinese Society - Paperback

by Yujie Chen (Author), Zhifei Mao (Author), Jack Linchuan Qiu (Author)

This book provides a balanced and nuanced study of how the super-sticky WeChat platform interweaves into the fabric of Chinese social, cultural, and political life. It keeps the wider global and national social media landscape in view and compares and contrasts WeChat with Weibo, QQ and other Western social media platforms.

Author Biography

Yujie ("Julie") Chen, Lecturer, Department of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester Zhifei Mao, Lecturer, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Jack Linchuan Qiu, Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong