Super-sticky Wechat and Chinese society

App designers dream of creating a platform that users never want to leave, that keeps them glued forever - a platform that is "sticky".Over 846 million WeChat users leave text and voice messages, share life moments, play games, use stickers, purchase rail and flight tickets, shop online, p...

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Main Authors Chen, Yujie (Author), Mao, Zhifei (Author), Qiu, Jack Linchuan, 1973- (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018.
SeriesEmerald points.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781787430914
9781787439443
DOI10.1108/9781787430914
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 151 pages).

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