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  • COVID-racism on social media and its impact on young Asians in Australia

    • Authors: Wonsun Shin; Wilfred Yang Wang; Jay Song (2023-03-03)

  • COVID-19 has fueled discrimination against people of Asian descent across the world, and anti-Asian sentiment has become pervasive across social media platforms. However, little research has been conducted to understand Asians’ experiences of COVID-related racism outside the USA. Drawing insights from cultivation theory and minority stress theory, this study examines how young Asians’ use of social media in Australia affects their experiences of individual and vicarious racial discrimination on social media, and how racial discrimination experienced on social media is associated with their concerns about real-world racism and well being. A survey of 413 social media users aged 16–30 w...
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  • Looking after the elderly, looking after the nation: Red (Xiao Hongshu) and China’s biopolitical governance of ageing

    • Authors: Wilfred Yang Wang (2021)

  • This article examines the cultural production of ageing in China. Specifically, it studies the representation and cultural construction of ageing on Red (xiao hongshu), a popular e-commerce orientated social media application (app). By noting the local in-app and techno-political dynamics the ageing discourse operates in, this article argues that the representation of ageing on Red reflects Chinese platform’s dual ambitions of pursuing market success and securing political support from the party-state. Drawing on data collected from a mixed-method approach of platform and document analysis, it finds that Red’s representation of ageing is located within the state’s official discourse that...