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This article aims to determine how digital nationalism influences gender politics in the context of gender-issue debates on Chinese social media platforms. To this end, I present an original case study, collecting empirical data from the most popular Chinese community question-answering (CQA) site – Zhihu. By using a mixed-method research design, consisting of content analysis (CA) and critical discourse analysis (CDA), I explored gender-issue debates between Chinese Internet users. The analysis reveals how such debates inform divided opinions between women and men Internet users, and how misogynistic men invoke a nationalist discourse to distort the debates. The findings shed new light on the dynamic interplay between digital nationalism and gender politics.
Author(s): Peng A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Global Media and Communication
Year: 2022
Volume: 18
Issue: 3
Pages: 281-299
Print publication date: 01/12/2022
Online publication date: 21/10/2022
Acceptance date: 02/04/2018
Date deposited: 12/11/2020
ISSN (print): 1742-7665
ISSN (electronic): 1742-7673
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665221125537
DOI: 10.1177/17427665221125537
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