With currently over one billion monthly active users, the Chinese social media and
multipurpose application WeChat (, Wēixìn, micro-message) has become one of the world's …

Media are central to the dynamics of protest and social movements. Contemporary social
movements face a shifting environment composed of new media technologies and platforms …

We provide first evidence of a link from daily air pollution exposure to sleep loss in a panel of
Chinese cities. We develop a social media-based, city-level metric for sleeplessness, and …

Online sexism has become an increasing concern in social media platforms as it has
affected the healthy development of the Internet and can have negative effects in society …

In the past, women had been inclined to remain silent in the face of sexual harassment and
this article examines the case of Chinese women, who have been empowered by the …

In China, the discussion of “fake news” often revolves around online rumor. In addition to
politically motivated rumors, a large portion of profit-driven, sensational rumors permeate …

This article examines the emerging phenomenon of the non-use of WeChat Moments.
Drawing upon semi-structured interviews with 21 users who used Moments for at least 6 …

This study aims to map out the popular phenomenon of misogyny in the specific techno-
social configuration buttressed by China's state-market nexus. With a case study of a …

Communities negatively affected by construction projects are becoming increasingly
empowered, organised and willing to engage in protest. The importance of communities as …

Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) has received attention from marketing academic society in
the last decade. Extant literature explains why consumers spread eWOM in social network …