Social Media and Ordinary Life: Affect, Ethics, and Aspiration in Contemporary China

by Cara Wallis

How Chinese citizens use social media

Focusing on domestic workers, rural microentrepreneurs, disadvantaged young creatives, and young feminists, Social Media and Ordinary Life is a deeply moving ethnography of how digital media infrastructures and platforms are woven into the rhythms of ordinary, everyday life. In choosing to foreground marginalized groups and communities, Cara Wallis gently shifts our attention away from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479825069
• ISBN13: 9781479825066
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages