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| Status | 即將出版Forthcoming |
| Language, Technology, and Social Media in China | |
TODD LYLE SANDEL1 ; Xiaoping WU2; Richard FITZGERALD1
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| 2025-01 | |
| Source Publication | Handbook of Language Policies in East Asia: Chinese Section |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Abstract | This chapter explores new language use and practices brought by China’s social media in the unique media environment shaped by language policies, technological innovations, and the social and political context of China. The rapid advancement of the internet and social media technologies has brought a significant impact on online language policies and practices, giving rise to more dynamic and evolving online policies and various innovative language phenomena. In China, digital and social media have evolved into a distinctive ecology of mediated communication and language practice in which language, culture, and technologies – together with government policies around social media – interact to create distinctive discursive and linguistic practices across a range of interactional contexts. Meanwhile, China’s online environment involves strict and multi-layered censorship that monitors digital content, thus creating boundaries around what it defines to be sensitive political and social topics, as app developers and content producers compete to develop marketable and successful products for a large Chinese audience. It is this unique and evolving environment that is at the heart of the creativity and interplay between such forces that make China’s social media unique and distinct. |
| Keyword | Discourse Analysis Social Media Digital Communication Multilingualism China |
| Language | 英語English |
| Document Type | Book chapter |
| Collection | Faculty of Social Sciences DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION |
| Corresponding Author | Richard FITZGERALD |
| Affiliation | 1.University of Macau, Department of Communication 2.Department of Languages and Cultures, BNU–HKBU United International College, Zhuhai, China |
| First Author Affilication | University of Macau |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | TODD LYLE SANDEL,Xiaoping WU,Richard FITZGERALD. Language, Technology, and Social Media in China[M]. Handbook of Language Policies in East Asia: Chinese Section:Brill, 2025. |
| APA | TODD LYLE SANDEL., Xiaoping WU., & Richard FITZGERALD (2025). Language, Technology, and Social Media in China. Handbook of Language Policies in East Asia: Chinese Section. |
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