Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, as well as platforms for collaborative
consumption such as Airbnb and Uber, are emerging as new power players that challenge …

Rural youths in China face very limited life opportunities. Urban-biased educational policies
have resulted in an unappealing school environment, where rural students become 'invisible …

The sociology of homosexuality lacks engagement with queer theory and postcolonialism
and focuses primarily on the global metropoles, thus failing to provide a plausible account of …

This chapter examines one of the most popular youth open platform and video site in China,
Bilibili, in which instant, bullet-commenting technology is built in to enhance the participation …

Entangled with wanghong (literally: popular people on the internet) and the platform
economy in China, it has become trendy for Chinese youth to present themselves as they …

This article is part of a research project that explores the movement of queer women
(lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer identified) from China to Australia and other …

This article is devoted to the analysis of cognitive distortion in the mass media as a method
of forming a civic identity. Due to the increasing influence of mass media and information …

This article investigates the practices of precarious playbour on Kuaishou, a short-video
platform embracing the idea of 'recording the lives of ordinary people'and attracting massive …

Every country has its patriots, but the ways of expressing patriotism may differ. A kind of
patriotic and nationalistic action was the so-called Diba Expedition that happened in …

In Sexuality and the Rise of China Travis SK Kong examines the changing meanings of
same-sex identities, communities, and cultures for young Chinese gay men in contemporary …