Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China

David Craig; Jian Lin; Stuart Cunningham

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-65376-7

Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China

David Craig^*, Jian Lin, Stuart Cunningham

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In Chinese, the term wanghong refers to creators, social media entrepreneurs alternatively known as KOLs (key opinion leaders) and zhubo (showroom hosts), influencers and micro-celebrities. Wanghong also refers to an emerging media ecology in which these creators cultivate online communities for cultural and commercial value by harnessing Chinese social media platforms, like Weibo, WeChat, Douyu, Huya, Bilibili, Douyin, and Kuaishou. Framed by the concepts of cultural, creative, and social industries, the book maps the development of wanghong policies and platforms, labor and management, content and culture, as they operate in contrast to its non-Chinese counterpart, social media entertainment, driven by platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitch. As evidenced by the backlash to TikTok, the threat of competition from global wanghong signals advancing platform nationalism.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave MacMillan
Number of pages	197
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-65376-7
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-65375-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65376-7
Publication status	Published - 2021

Publication series

Name	Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISSN (Print)	2730-9282
ISSN (Electronic)	2730-9290

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