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App designers dream of creating a platform that users never want to leave, that keeps them glued forever - a platform that is "sticky".

Over 846 million WeChat users leave text and voice messages, share life moments, play games, use stickers, purchase rail and flight tickets, shop online, pay utilities and bills, transfer money to friends, and even donate to charity without leaving WeChat, the super-sticky platform. The Economist called WeChat "one app to rule them all", and as it starts to gain global appeal, it is rewriting the rules for social media platforms.

This book provides a balanced and nuanced study of how the super-sticky WeChat platform interweaves into the fabric of Chinese social, cultural, and political life. It keeps the wider global and national social media landscape in view and compares and contrasts WeChat with Weibo and QQ, two other popular social media platforms in China, and other Western social media platforms.


Yujie ("Julie") Chen, Lecturer, Department of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester

Zhifei Mao, Lecturer, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jack Linchuan Qiu, Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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豆瓣评论

  • 德小科
    微信研究的重要文本,非常新而且讲得非常全!方法和框架新颖但准确实用,从功能和社会语境多重方面的critical analysis正是在当前微信成为Mega-Platform之后一个回顾式梳理,尽管缺少延展性的分析,但它对自己第一学期的term paper帮助巨大……吹一波2019-01-14
  • Echo
    和想象的不太一样……感觉比较适合没用过微信的外国人读2021-08-02
  • 小夜
    一直好奇为什么antitrust agencies没有对腾讯展开反垄断调查(即使是路透社宣称的“计划处罚金额”也远小于阿里),虽然这本书并非回答这个问题,却依然对思考政企合作的范围和尺度很有启发。2021-07-21

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