The concept of platformisation has been used throughout contemporary Chinese sociology
and media studies to explain the process by which emerging local digital platforms facilitate …

Based on the case of Bilibili, a popular Chinese video-sharing social media with a core
focus on animation, comic, game and novel, this article examines the transnational …

This article explores the platformization of cultural production and its impact on the boys'
love (BL) fandom in China. BL, a subculture centered around same-sex male romances and …

Stuart Cunningham explore the emergence of wanghong in China from a cultural, political
and social macro-perspective, paying particular attention to the relation between wanghong …

Recently, China's digital public and its connections to socio-cultural values and political-
economic circumstances have received increased attention from mass media outlets. Here …

This article examines conditions placing China's livestreamers as central focal points in the
increasing tensions between the cultural politics and economic ambitions of digital China …

Whilst global hits such as Pokémon utilized what Marc Steinberg calls anime's media mix,
implementing a multiple-platform narrative world in an attempt to synergize/converge a …

With the continuing innovation of digital technologies and mobile multimedia terminals, the
live steaming industry still has its relatively enormous market share in China. However, the …

This article investigates Chinese urban youth's mediated 'slice of life'and playful encounters
as part of their identity construction and performance work on Bilibili, one of China's most …

Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China provides a timely exploration of the
historical emergence of wanghong, now a “wildly polysemic” term (Craig et al., 2021, p. 2) …