Random Street Snapshots to Rescue Child Beggars: Micro-Power and Micro-Philanthropy in China

Haiqing Yu

Chapter 5 in Digital Enablement and Innovation in China:A Casebook, 2019, pp 29-37 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This case reviews a micro-blog event that took place in 2011 — Random Street Snapshots to Rescue Child Beggars — in order to illustrate the role of social media in Chinese civic movements. This Weibo (micro-blog)-based event represents the emergence of micro-philanthropy in China among its urban and educated residents. This and many other mediated events that aim to help the poor, disadvantaged, under-privileged, and marginalized sections of society constitute what I call “micro-power” in China.

Keywords: Digital Enablement; Digital Transformation; Innovation in China; Technological Disruption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789813276369_0005 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789813276369_0005 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789813276369_0005

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().