This article focuses on how the anthropological study of media—through an examination of
its production, circulation, and consumption—elucidates issues of social organization …

This paper discusses China's ban of the hit Japanese video game Animal Crossing: New
Horizon. Situating the ban in the context of Chinese digital economy, this paper investigates …

In 2021, a top-down rectification movement called 'Clean Up'impinged on Chinese idol
fandom culture. This movement triggered discussions about the transforming governance …

Enabled by social media, the data frenzy in the data-driven fandom culture in China has
attracted widespread attention. Unlike most forms of data labor and fan activities, Chinese …

This article investigates the role of fans as content regulators in what we call the China
model of Internet censorship. Expanding on Jenkins' participatory culture, we construct a …

Responding to recent calls in sociolinguistics and social semiotics to study the material,
technological and embodied features of writing, this article examines Chinese users' …

Social media and crowdsourcing (SMCS) are increasingly used as tools to govern disasters.
Nevertheless, we have a limited understanding of how these technologies support disaster …

In June 2022, the German government implemented a transit policy offering travelers an
unlimited ticket to ride the country's regional train system all summer long for a mere 9€ …

Current scholarship tends to see temporality as a problem or challenge to be overcome in
communication on social media (as in “context collapse” and “time collapse”). Drawing on in …

Nowadays, the omnipresence of the Internet has fostered a subculture that congregates
around the contemporary milieu. The subculture artfully articulates the intricacies of human …