Lessons learned from the investigation of academic WeChat official accounts

Xu, Shenmeng; Hemminger, Bradley M.

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Title

Lessons learned from the investigation of academic WeChat official accounts

Author(s)

• Xu, Shenmeng
• Hemminger, Bradley M.

Issue Date

2019-03-15

Keyword(s)

• WeChat
• Scholarly communication
• Altmetrics
• Social media
• China

Abstract

This poster reports the issues we encountered in the investigation of WeChat Official Accounts. The goal of our study is to explore how scientific articles are communicated on WeChat, with a particular focus on whether it can be a promising source of altmetrics. WeChat is different from other influential social media tools in many aspects including the technological affordances, user groups, languages used, among others. This poster describes and discusses findings of the WeChat specific features regarding technical barriers (based on the infrastructure and affordances), language barriers (mainly between English and Chinese), cultural barriers (about commenting and sharing behavior of users), and policy barriers.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2019 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/103368

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/iconf.2019.103368

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Copyright 2019 Shenmeng Xu and Bradley M. Hemminger

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