This paper lays the conceptual foundation for understanding the significant role that social
media can and does play in relation to spreading the threat and growth of terrorism …

Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural
interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this …

Our study examines the nature and development of microblogging in China. By adopting a
Gramscian thesis of 'hegemony', we argue that the Chinese regime is facing a crisis of …

Previous studies on “youtubification” of political communication (May, 2010) have largely
focused on democratic contexts. This study aims at exploring the role of the global video …

Contestation and Adaptation unravels the complexities of national-identity contestation
among various ethnic minority groups in China. It focuses on the interactions between …

In the Western world China stands accused of severe human rights violations regarding its
treatment of the Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim minorities in its northwestern …

This paper offers a framework for examining the relationship between social, instrumental,
and technological determinants of participation through social media (Dahlberg, 2004) using …

Digital migration studies is research on migration in relation to digital technologies. As we1
explore in this book, research addresses the digitization of borders and the datafication of …

How are online and social media being used in transnational spaces? This article presents
empirical findings from a study of the Facebook usage among the Uyghur diaspora. We …

Advances in digital technologies have provided ample positive impacts to modern society;
however, in addition to such benefits, these innovations have inadvertently created a new …