Tag: China (North)
Tom McDonald , March 14th, 2017
Earlier this month, I was very fortunate to be interviewed by the BBC on my research onto the use of technology in China. The article that was published…

Daniel Miller , October 11th, 2016
Although the Why We Post project is primarily an attempt to study the use and consequences of social media, there were other broader aims. Particularly, the hope that…

Xin Yuan Wang , September 12th, 2016
Between 12th-24th September 2016, Professor Daniel Miller and two researchers on the Why We Post project, Tom McDonald and Xinyuan Wang, will give a series of talks about…

Daniel Miller , June 16th, 2015
Scalable Sociality Right now we are finishing the last of our eleven volumes from this project, a book which will be called How the World Changed Social Media….

Tom McDonald , May 28th, 2015
A typical shopfront in the North China fieldsite (Photo: Gillian Bolsover) One surprising feature of QQ – the most popular social media platform in the rural Chinese town where…

Tom McDonald , May 11th, 2015
Weibo: share your thoughts with the world (assuming, of course, you actually want to). Photo: bfishadow (CC BY 2.0) I read with interest Celia Hatton’s BBC News article published…