TY - JOUR AU - Ju, Bei AU - Sandel, Todd AU - Fitzgerald, Richard PY - 2019/06/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Understanding chinese internet and social media : the innovative and creative affordances of technology, language and culture JF - Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage JA - Cahiers du CLSL VL - IS - 59 SE - Articles DO - 10.26034/la.cdclsl.2019.65 UR - https://www.cahiers-clsl.ch/article/view/65 SP - 161-177 AB - <p>In this chapter we set out to briefly sketch out a description of Chinese internet<br>culture from its historical development through to some of its current characteristics.<br>From the early roll out of the internet through to the use of social media Chinese<br>internet cutlture should be understood as emerging from the interplay of a number<br>of forces: technological changes, software development, user-generated interactional<br>practices, and government censorship. The discussion goes onto highlight how<br>increasingly divergent forms of Chinese social media use provide a rich source of<br>analysis of new and innovative practices as well as an awareness of the distinct context<br>of communicative technological and social environment of it its 772 million users.</p> ER -