An Introduction to Cyberculture
An Introduction to Cyberculture
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier
The Appropriation of Interactive Technologies: Some Lessons from Placeless Documents
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Portable Communities: The Social Dynamics of Online and Mobile Connectedness
Portable Communities: The Social Dynamics of Online and Mobile Connectedness
Design for China Migrant Workers: A Case of User Research and Mobile Product Concepts Development
HCD 09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Human Centered Design: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Ethnographic User Study and Concept Design for Chinese Migrant Workers' Social Networks
OCSC '09 Proceedings of the 3d International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Designing with mobile digital storytelling in rural Africa
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Social practices and mobile phone use of young migrant workers
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Engaging with practices: design case studies as a research framework in CSCW
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Anthropology, development and ICTs: slums, youth and the mobile internet in urban India
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
'On the ground' in Sidi Bouzid: investigating social media use during the tunisian revolution
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Hustling online: understanding consolidated facebook use in an informal settlement in Nairobi
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Based on a field study in Guangdong Province, this paper describes the social media use of Chinese migrant workers in the manufacturing sector. It was found that social media plays a significant role in the lives of young workers who have left their rural hometowns in early adulthood and struggle to survive in the urban centers. They buy expensive IT devices to gain a social reputation, as social media provides opportunities for self-expression; strengthens their self-consciousness; and to a certain extent, influences their world view. For most of the workers in our study, social media has become a very important part of leisure time and entertainment. Moreover, the life in virtual worlds provides them a psychological compensation mechanism to temporarily avoid the pressure of their daily lives.