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Sharing food photographs on social media is on the rise. This act has become increasingly popular in younger generation urban Chinese users’ everyday use of WeChat, the popular social media application. In this article, I argue that self-presentation provides an angle to understand aspects of young, middle-class urbanites’ food-photograph sharing. This article comprises an eight-month project, conducting netnographic research of 16 young, middle-class Chinese urbanites’ WeChat usage. Through the netnographic research, I discovered that, by displaying geotagged snapshots of food, these young urbanites disclose their everyday consumer experience in particular urban spaces. Aspects of this practice feed into these urbanites’ performance of Xiaozi tastes, facilitating the self-presentation of their class distinction. The outcomes of the research provide a glimpse into the interplay between post-reform consumerism, Xiaozi lifestyle, and social media usage in the urban, middle-class Chinese younger generation’s everyday lives.
Author(s): Peng AY
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Social Identities
Year: 2019
Volume: 25
Issue: 2
Pages: 269-287
Print publication date: 01/01/2019
Online publication date: 12/12/2017
Acceptance date: 15/11/2017
Date deposited: 20/05/2019
ISSN (print): 1350-4630
ISSN (electronic): 1363-0296
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2017.1414596
DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2017.1414596
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