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Local News Deserts in China: The Role of Social Media and Personal Communicatio...
Tai, Zixue; He, Bai; Liu, JianpingThe field of local news is often associated with news deserts, commonly defined as geo-based communities without newspapers or other legacy media as providers of locally oriented news and civic information. This phenomenon is expanding in global society due to the diminishing presence of newspapers at moments of accelerated digitization. This study examines the multiplex nature of news deserts in rural and subu...
Tethered Disparities: Adolescent Smartphone Use in Rural and Urban China
Chen, Huan; Tai, ZixueThe pervasive penetration of the smartphone has disproportionately affected adolescents and youth more than any other sociodemographic group. Inspired by the conceptual framework of the digital divide in internet use, this research aims to interrogate the multi-dimensional aspects of disparities in smartphone use among teens in China. Measurement was developed to assess the first-, second-, and third-level divi...
Social Media and Contentious Action: The Use and Users of QQ Groups in China
Tai, ZixueThis article presents an analysis of a netnographic study of QQ groups engaged in contentious activities in China. Informed primarily by semi-structured in-depth interviews of 34 participants and field observations through years of grounded research, the findings shed light on the communicative dynamics and mobilization strategies of QQ groups in nurturing contentious action and motivating mass participation in...