#Wanghong #Urbanism (internet celebrity urbanism): Me and my geographic pals (Amy and Asa) have written a small (5k) piece for the open access Mediapolis Journal on the idea of wanghong urbanism. It's something we've been playing with in our DMs for a while.

https://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2022/11/wanghong-urbanism/

We discuss urban-digital spectacles, relevant in relation to recent events maybe.

It was aa nice experience publishing with Mediapolis, you should do it too #China #ChinaStudies #DigitalGeography #HumanGeography

Me: Create a #wanghong / #internetcelebrity; it can be more-than-human.

Students:
- Llama cafe
- Lidl
- Tea house on a mountain
- Foreign lady who loves #China
- Tiny pig
- Bot network
- Virtual idol
- Haunted hotel

Many people wanted more-than-humans. Had to highlight difference between wanghong as 'unique' internet celebrity / #influencer vs #wanghong as repeatable #vibe #aesthetic

#Reflections on this: https://fediscience.org/@carwyn/109303351132213061 #Academic #AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #Teaching

Rules of the game, as outlined by the State Administration of Radio and Television, Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Translated by China Law Translate: https://www.chinalawtranslate.com/en/online-presenter-code-of-conduct/

#MediaStudies #DigitalCulture #CriticalDigitalStudies #NewMedia #PlatformLabor #MediaIndustries #ProductionCultures #LaborStudies #CreatorEconomy #ChinaStudies #DigitalChina #China #WangHong #Influencer

To discuss #InternetCelebrity / #WangHong and #Influencers in China, I also ask the students to read this piee on beauty influencers:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1737154

And this piee by myself and two friends on #wanghongurbanism in China which we wrote for #ChaoyangTrap:

https://chaoyang.substack.com/p/wanghong-urbanism

#ChinaStudies #Teaching #MediaStudies #Geography

Starting "Make-A-#Wanghong Company" (#internetcelebrity) #teaching activity in seminars. The students role play running an #influencer management company in #China and make a strategy document.

One of the readings I ask them to do is, "Historicising Wanghong economy" by Xiaofei Han:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19392397.2020.1737196

The activity is inspired by Crystal Abidin's teaching and extended to be a multi-week project:

https://wishcrys.com/teaching-syllabi/

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #Academic #AcademicFedi

wallpaper* magazines Chinese version - i think they sold their total Chinese rights to a Chinese publishing "platform" several years ago - is co-producing a #wanghong #influencer #网红 based apartment complex. More wanghong urbanism!

Co-authorship practices: Just about to submit a co-authored paper with two friends, we're examining the idea of 网红城市 wanghong chengshi, or internet celebrity cities, in China. The paper develops the term #wanghong #urbanism (internet celebrity urbanism) and the idea of "urban-digital spectacle" through three case studies. We all did equal work, so what to do about naming order?

We drew the names out of a bag ☺️

I guess an #introduction : I research the #geography - #humangeography and #digitalgeography - of #China and am working at Leiden university in #Chinastudies .

I'm currently teaching digital society in contemporary china, china's digital geographies, and strategic communication and china.

I look at things like #migration, #wechat, #food economies, #wanghong (internet celebrity) urbanism, and broader politics of digital social life.

Currently confused by Mastodon :3 I also like #boardgames