Life Begins HERE: A Study on Social Networks and Empowerment in China

This book explores how Internet use empowers users and the range of economic and social implications of these impacts. This is the first systematic study of how the Internet and online social networks reconfigure the life choices and opportunity sets Chinese people of different age groups face, and ways in which internet users’ life online and offline are intertwined with each other. The new ways of obtaining and making use of information and of interacting with others made possible by new ...