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Micro-blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China
Eileen Le Han
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Description for Micro-blogging Memories: Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing age of social media? Eileen Le Han examines how various kinds of public events are shared, debated, and their historical significance and worthiness of remembrance highlighted on Weibo. Journalism plays a significant part in mobilizing collective remembering of these events, in a society with rapidly changing topics on the platform, the tightening state ... Read more
This book offers an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective memory through a five-year analysis of Weibo, a leading Chinese micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. How does society remember public events in the rapidly changing age of social media? Eileen Le Han examines how various kinds of public events are shared, debated, and their historical significance and worthiness of remembrance highlighted on Weibo. Journalism plays a significant part in mobilizing collective remembering of these events, in a society with rapidly changing topics on the platform, the tightening state ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137598806
SKU
V9781137598806
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99-15
About Eileen Le Han
Eileen Le Han teaches at Michigan State University, USA. She received her Ph.D. in communication from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in the cultural meaning of social media in transitional society and has published multiple journal articles on global Chinese culture, journalism, and collective memory.
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