Wilfred Wang

Buying on Weixin/WeChat: Proposing a sociomaterial approach of platform studies

Weiying Peng, Wilfred Yang Wang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Media Culture and Society

This article examines the social-commercial activity of microcommerce ( wei shang), which has become popular on Weixin (WeChat), o..

Digital Media, State's Legitimacy and Chinese Paternalism

Wilfred Yang Wang

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

Building on the three approaches that try to explain the ‘democratic failure’ of China’s digital media, I would like to introduce ..

Mapping Cantonese: The Pro-Cantonese Protest and Sina Weibo in Guangzhou

Wilfred Yang Wang

Book Chapter  |  2020

This chapter explores the reproduction of Guangzhou’s local identity during the pro-Cantonese protest in 2010 on Sina Weibo, one o..

Community stakeholder and opinion formation toward end-of-life planning in Chinese community in Australia

Wilfred Yang Wang, Gil-Soo Han, Helen Forbes-Mewett

Journal article  |  2020  |  Death Studies

We examine the role of stakeholders in constructing new socio-cultural narratives of advance care planning in the Chinese communit..

Dining 'on and off': Good, wellbeing and WeChat use among older Chinese migrants in Australia

Wilfred Yang Wang, Yanan Jana Yang

Conference Proceedings  |  2020  |  AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2020

This study examines how WeChat, one of the most popular Chinese messenger applications installed on smartphone, facilitates the fo..

Together Here, Now and Forever: Chinese Immigrants’ Belonging in Australia, Family, Ethnicity and Memorialisation

Helen Forbes-Mewett, Gil-soo Han, Wilfred Yang Wang

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Intercultural Studies

This paper investigates end-of-life decisions, ethnic influences and memorialisaton of Chinese immigrants in Melbourne, Australia...

'Property talk' among Chinese Australians: WeChat and the production of diasporic space

Ge Zhang, Wilfred Yang Wang

Journal article  |  2019  |  Media International Australia

Migrant communities keep our cemeteries alive as more Anglo-Australians turn to cremation

Wilfred Yang Wang, Gil-Soo Han, Helen Forbes-Mewett

Media  |  2019

Digital Media in Urban China Locating Guangzhou

Wilfred Yang Wang

Book  |  2019  |  Cultural Studies

This book examines the use and culture of digital media in urban Chinese cities. By examining examples and data from Chinese and g..

How China is legally recognising same-sex couples, but not empowering them

Xu Chen, Wilfred Yang Wang

Media  |  2019