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Perspectives From China: Social Media And Living Well In A Chinese Context, Sarah Mattice
Perspectives From China: Social Media And Living Well In A Chinese Context, Sarah Mattice
UNF Faculty Research and Scholarship
The United States has a current population of approximately 313.9 million people. In 2013, more than 600 million users had active accounted on Qzone, China’s largest social media site (Millward 2013). Although discussions of social media tend to assume American or European users, social media is a worldwide phenomenon, and different locales bring different concerns to bear on social media ethics. China not only leads the world in terms of sheer numbers of users, but also has the most active environment for social media, ranging from instant chat platforms like QQ to blogs, microblogs, social networking sites, and gaming platforms. …