Linguistic Practices as Political Behavior: The Discursive Construction of Online Chinese Nationalism

• In Event: Lightning Talk: Information, Media, and Online Political Behavior

Brief Overview

This study examines how xenophobic narratives toward South Korea form on Chinese social media. Using digital ethnography, it shows how everyday online speech constructs identities and encodes political attitudes within an authoritarian context.

Author

• Wenmiao Wu, Chinese University of Hong Kong