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Categorising relationships through QQ’s friend lists, or, the problem of...
A list of a user’s different groups of friends on QQ’s Instant Messaging client (Photo: Tom McDonald) Listing the social connections of a research participant is a somewhat foundational methodological...
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Chinese ‘WeChat’ social media app will make the world look around and shake!
A WeChat user gets ready to Shake (Photo: Tom McDonald) Two years is a long time in the world of social media. This point has been reinforced to me multiple times in the last few weeks since my return...
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QQ & WeChat: a threat to marriage in China?
Photo by flowcomm (Creative Commons) Writing in the 1970s, Margery Wolf noted the pressures faced by rural Chinese women when they married. Women would typically leave their home village, where they...
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Online relationships with strangers can be ‘purer’ than with offline friends
“Internet dog” by Source. Licensed under Fair use via Wikipedia. As illustrated in the cartoon ‘On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog’, published by The New Yorker in 1993, the anonymity afforded...
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