This article offers a timely, critical analysis of the male gaze upon sportswomen in male
Chinese fans' consumption of sporting megaevents. We use the most popular Chinese …

This chapter provides an overview of the entire book by outlining the theoretical approach it
adopts to integrate the gender-politics axis in China's digital public sphere. The chapter also …

China has in recent years seen the rapid adoption of multifunctional social networking
applications such as WeChat. This paper aims to explore if China's social stratification has …

Thirty years into China's internet development, much recent scholarship has focused on
rather daunting forces—big data, algorithmic control, surveillance, and platformization, to …

The role of social media in a resilient process is associated with the co-constitution of
structural forces and users' agency. During COVID-19, how women—particularly low-skilled …

In the Chinese context, prior research has investigated internal migrants' and rural residents'
uses of information and communication technologies (ICT), but studies on rural women's …

While previous studies have documented the trials of rural-to-urban migration in postreform
China, little is known of the consequences of urban demolition and attendant uncertainty on …

Based on a thematic analysis of 7,569 posts on the online parenting forum Mumsnet Talk, in
this article we examine how domestic cleaning—one of the most invisible aspects of …

If there is such a thing as a dominant public sphere in post-reform China, its emotional
tonality has often been described as overwhelmingly positive, as evidenced by the recent …

Emotions-as-practices involve an open, embodied, and meaning-making process as digital
technologies can shape and transform how emotions are enacted. This study uses the …