Understanding chinese internet and social media : the innovative and creative affordances of technology, language and culture

Abstract

In this chapter we set out to briefly sketch out a description of Chinese internetculture from its historical development through to some of its current characteristics.From the early roll out of the internet through to the use of social media Chineseinternet cutlture should be understood as emerging from the interplay of a numberof forces: technological changes, software development, user-generated interactionalpractices, and government censorship. The discussion goes onto highlight howincreasingly divergent forms of Chinese social media use provide a rich source ofanalysis of new and innovative practices as well as an awareness of the distinct contextof communicative technological and social environment of it its 772 million users.

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