功能可见性
中国
新闻
透视图(图形)
光学(聚焦)
钥匙(锁)
计算机科学
通过镜头测光
社会化媒体
政治
即时消息
政治学
互联网隐私
社会学
万维网
媒体研究
镜头(地质)
人机交互
光学
物理
工程类
人工智能
石油工程
计算机安全
法学
标识
DOI:10.1080/21670811.2022.2053335
摘要
This article takes a close look at news sharing on the immensely popular Chinese instant messaging app WeChat. The study is an example of how an affordances perspective can be useful for understanding a key concept of digital journalism, namely news sharing. Most research on news sharing focuses on its antecedents or consequences; in contrast, this study demonstrates how a focus on the affordances of WeChat can illuminate ways in which news sharing on social media in China works. It also explores how the interplay of the platform's owner, Tencent's commercial logics and the technology company's relations with the state may have shaped WeChat's news sharing through the lens of the political economy of communication. By analysing the platform's nuanced interface design and its possible implications, the study finds that the affordances of WeChat can both enable and constrain users' participation in news distribution.
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