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This article explores the role gender plays in addressing the privacy paradox in the context of young Chinese people’s locative dating communication. Based on a case study of 19 Chinese college students, I explore differing privacy management strategies adopted by female and male participants in their use of WeChat People Nearby. This gendered phenomenon reveals how People Nearby works within patriarchal Chinese society to pose more privacy-related risks to women than to men in locative dating communication. The research findings shed new light on the socio-technological processes through which existing gender power relations are reproduced in young Chinese people’s use of locative social media applications.
Author(s): Peng Altman Yuzhu
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Global Media and China
Year: 2021
Volume: 6
Issue: 2
Pages: 225-240
Print publication date: 01/06/2021
Online publication date: 25/05/2021
Acceptance date: 24/04/2021
Date deposited: 14/05/2021
ISSN (electronic): 2059-4372
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364211017333
DOI: 10.1177/20594364211017333
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