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Communication Seminar Series – Social Media, Personal Aesthetics, and Marginalized Young Creatives in Beijing by Prof. Cara Wallis
2017年10月27日
下午2时30分至下午4时正
中文大学新亚书院人文馆313室
Prof. Cara Wallis, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University
manlokchan@cuhk.edu.hk / Tel: 39437701 (Miss Mandy Chan)
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this talk explores how a group of marginalized young creatives in Beijing, who are not necessarily part of the established culture industries, pursue their creative endeavors, which they frame in terms of personal aesthetics, and how social media use is intricately connected to these pursuits. Wallis pays particular attention to the way that social media have become a conduit for news modes of desiring in contemporary China (Rofel, 2007) and for the imagination as a form of work and constructing the self (Appadurai, 1990). She will explain how aesthetics is connected to three themes: cultivating knowledge; forms of taste, distinction, and hierarchy; and as an ethical imperative. Wallis believes that understanding these young creatives sheds light on how individual transformations are constitutive of social transformations in China and that social media are a key factor in both processes.
