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By Eileen Le Han

This ebook deals an in-depth account of social media, journalism and collective reminiscence via a five-year research of Weibo, a number one chinese language micro-blogging platform, and prism of transitional China in a globalizing world. 
How does society keep in mind public occasions within the swiftly altering age of social media? 
Eileen Le Han examines how different types of public occasions are shared, debated, and their ancient value and worthiness of remembrance highlighted on Weibo. Journalism performs an important half in mobilizing collective remembering of those occasions, in a society with speedily altering issues at the platform, the tightening kingdom regulate, and nationalism at the rise. 
The first 5 years of Weibo replicate a dramatic swap in chinese language society, the place reporters, media pros, and opinion leaders in different fields of craftsmanship, including traditional voters at once laid low with those alterations in way of life collaborate to witness the swift social transition. 

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