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Interface culture and gendered privacy risks in the context of Chinese locative social media use
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Peng, Yuzhu (Altman) and Gu, Feng (2021) Interface culture and gendered privacy risks in the context of Chinese locative social media use. Social Identities, 27 (1). pp. 59-74. doi:10.1080/13504630.2020.1814725 ISSN 1350-4630.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2020.1814725
Abstract
Across the world, young people are increasingly using locative social media applications to socialize with strangers for dating opportunities. This phenomenon is also found in Chinese society, where such applications are very popular with young Chinese urbanites. This article presents a case study of how young Chinese urbanites navigate social interactions with strangers on WeChat People Nearby, based on the findings of interviews with 19 Chinese university students aged between 18 and 23. By drawing on the notion of interface, we uncover how gender dynamics are established in young Chinese urbanites’ People Nearby use and how the gender dynamics are engineered by the privacy paradox of interfaced social interactions between strangers in the locality. The outcomes of the present research help us to understand the gender-related opportunity-risk axis established in young Chinese urbanites’ everyday use of locative social media applications.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Wechat (Firm), Online social networks -- China, Mobile apps -- Social aspects -- China, Online social networks -- Security measures, Urban youth -- China -- Online chat groups, Conversation analysis, Dating services -- China -- Online chat groups | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social Identities | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1350-4630 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 27 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 59-74 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/13504630.2020.1814725 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Social Identities on 03/09/2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13504630.2020.1814725 | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 23 March 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 March 2022 | ||||||||
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