Smartphone as ritual fan. Poaching in Weixin-mediated (Cyber)space with Nuosu-Yi ritualists of Liangshan, Southwest China
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0349643" target="_blank" >https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0349643</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v5i4.142" target="_blank" >10.33621/jdsr.v5i4.142</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Smartphone as ritual fan. Poaching in Weixin-mediated (Cyber)space with Nuosu-Yi ritualists of Liangshan, Southwest China
Original language description
This article explores the engagement of the bimo – the Liangshan ethnic Nuosu-Yi literati-ritualists of Sichuan Province, China – with Weixin (WeChat), a ubiquitous Chinese all-in-one app. Utilizing a nethnographic approach – an ethnography of nculturally conditioned simultaneous online and offline practices – I argue that by using the smartphones in ways unforeseen by their developers, the bimo are poaching the property of those who designed the app primarily for the Chinese-speaking majority. The usage of technology stipulated by the modernization push of the Chinese authoritarian state then transforms both the bimo and technology. The resultant techno-culture not only builds upon, reinvents, develops and reinforces the allegedly diminishing Nuosu-Yi folkways – especially inter-clan competition – but also feeds the state-approved Yi folklore. The dialogic reconciliation of the top-down computerization of society and the bottom-up socialization of technology reveals itself as intrinsically connected to the culturally conditioned use of technology in our everyday lives.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Digital Social Research
ISSN
2003-1998
e-ISSN
2003-1998
Volume of the periodical
5
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
SE - SWEDEN
Number of pages
25
Pages from-to
144-168
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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