News and Research articles on Digital consumption

Volume 11, Issue 1

Platform as new “daddy”: China’s gendered wanghong economy and patriarchal platforms behind

Xiaofei Han, Carleton University
PUBLISHED ON: 22 Mar 2022 DOI: 10.14763/2022.1.1631

This paper is part of The gender of the platform economy, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by Mayo Fuster Morell, Ricard Espelt and David Megias. Introduction Wanghong is short for the Chinese term “wangluo hongren”: people who have gone viral online. Covering a wide spectrum of participants including video uploader, vlogger, popular accounts on diverse social media, wanghong refers to a particular stream of vocational Chinese internet celebrities that have acquired their celebrity online and have acute incentives through various models to liquidate such online influence by transforming followers into consumers (Han, 2020a). As of late, the wanghong economy in China …

KEYWORDS: Consumers, China, Digital consumption, Digital platforms, gender
Volume 8, Issue 2

Knocking on Heaven’s Door: User preferences on digital cultural distribution

Joan-Josep Vallbé, University of Barcelona
Balázs Bodó, University of Amsterdam
João P. Quintais, University of Amsterdam
Christian W. Handke, Erasmus University Rotterdam
PUBLISHED ON: 18 Jun 2019 DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1404

This paper explores the social, demographic and attitudinal basis of consumer support for a Copyright Compensation System (CCS), which, for a small monthly fee would legalise currently infringing online social practices such as private copying from illegal sources and online sharing of copyrighted works.

KEYWORDS: Online content service providers, Cultural consumption, Copyright compensation system, Digital consumption, User satisfaction