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Introduction
Pu Yan is a doctorate candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Pu does mixed methods research on Urban/Rural Sociology, Social Stratification and Communication, Internet and Information Behaviours. Her current project is 'Grassroots Informatisation: The Internet and Everyday Information Practices in China'.
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Globalisation is an area where supporters and non-supporters of left- and right-wing parties disagree, both for domestic and international policies. Populists see metropolitan elites as ‘corrupt’ and oppose policies that encourage globalisation in trade, immigration, and multi-culturalism. Media play important roles in providing pro- and anti-globa...
The proliferation of information technologies has changed how Internet users around the world seek information. While information and communication technologies have transformed the structure of the Chinese economy, they have also brought challenges to the informational realms of everyday lives. However, there is a lack of empirical research explor...
The internet is becoming a major source of everyday information, yet existing research often focuses on specific information seeking contexts such as health, climate change, news, or hobbies. In this paper, we put forward a more holistic theoretical model of information seeking practices in everyday life that combines the social phenomenological pe...
Climate change and populism are two major phenomena in contemporary politics. Recent successes of populist parties and politicians, especially in Europe and in the US, have given rise to extensive debates in the academic literature and beyond. Yet the link between populism and climate change scepticism (henceforth ‘scepticism’), has so far received...
Marking the 25th anniversary of the “digital divide,” we continue our metaphor of the digital inequality stack by mapping out the rapidly evolving nature of digital inequality using a broad lens. We tackle complex, and often unseen, inequalities spawned by the platform economy, automation, big data, algorithms, cybercrime, cybersafety, gaming, emot...
2020 marks the 25th anniversary of the “digital divide.” Although a quarter century has passed, legacy digital inequalities continue, and emergent digital inequalities are proliferating. Many of the initial schisms identified in 1995 are still relevant today. Twenty-five years later, foundational access inequalities continue to separate the digital...
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 influenced the adoption and use of mobile social apps and if social apps such as WeChat can help to bridge the digital divide by providing urban and rural users equal acc...
Social networking and micro-blogging sites such as Twitter and Weibo have provided new platforms of public discussions for Internet users. As the number of online social movements has increased in recent years, the Chinese government has adopted new media and has strategically confronted online social movements with orchestrated campaigns, which le...
Guanxi, roughly translated as “social connection,” is a term commonly used in the Chinese language. In this study, we employed a linguistic approach to explore popular discourses on guanxi. Although sharing the same Confucian roots, Chinese communities inside and outside Mainland China have undergone different historical trajectories. Hence, we too...
Guanxi, roughly translated as "social connection", is a term commonly used in the Chinese language. In this research, we employed a linguistic approach to explore popular discourses on Guanxi. Although sharing the same Confucian roots, Chinese communities inside and outside Mainland China have undergone different historical trajectories. Hence, we...
Social networking and micro-blogging sites such as Twitter and Weibo have provided new platforms of public discussions for Chinese Internet users. As the number of online social movements has increased in recent years, Chinese government has adopted new media and has strategically confronted online social movements with orchestrated campaigns, whic...
自上世纪80年代初，农村剩余劳动力开始向城市转移，并开始形成大规模的人口流动和城市化浪潮。随着城镇化的不断发展，农民工不但在数量上持续增长，其内部也出现了代际的分化。新生代农民工既是传统农民工问题在新发展阶段的延续，由于其不同于传统公民工群体的时代背景和社会环境，该群体的特征和相关问题也有别于传统农民工群体。在诸多新生代农民工的相关问题中，这一新兴群体的新媒体使用与社会融入问题是较少涉及的研究议题之一。伴随着Web 2.0时代的到来，社交网站（SNS）、智能手机不断普及，新闻就业等信息愈发普及、人际间联系也愈发紧密。本研究探讨的重要问题是：在这样的时代背景下，新生代农民工的社会融入是否会因为其新媒体的使用有所推进？社会融入的几个维度又分别受到何种因素的影响？
本研究通过梳理、分析、评价围绕新...
