Event overview
A public talk organised by the Digital Worldmaking Research Stream and the Goldsmiths Media Ethnography Group
In this talk, Cara Wallis will present on her current book project, which is an expansive study of social media use in China based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted offline and online over the last four years. In this project she explores how different types of social media are used in ordinary yet significant ways among diverse groups, including domestic workers, rural micro-entrepreneurs, young creatives who have migrated to Beijing, and female college students and feminist activists. The thread tying these disparate groups together is that they all face different types and degrees of marginalization and they are engaging with social media as a space for agency to pursue self-transformation, economic and emotional security, individual aesthetics, and personal ethics. These processes and practices in turn speak to larger social, economic, and cultural transformations taking place in China.
Bio: Cara Wallis is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. She studies new media technologies and issues of power, difference, subjectivity, and social change in China. She is the author of Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones (NYU Press, 2013).
Dates & times
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17 Jan 2019 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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