How a WeChat public platform has changed the world?

The rapid function iteration, massive content creation, and the surge of fans' attention have promoted the steady development of wechat public platform, making it transform from one-dimensional content output function to multi-dimensional marketing promotion, online service, public opinion processing and other functions.

Is WeChat an infrastructure?

Plantin, Jean-Christophe and de Seta, Gabriele (2018) WeChat as infrastructure: the techno- nationalist shaping of Chinese digital platforms. Journal of Chinese Communication. ISSN 1754- 4750 (In Press) LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School.

Is WeChat a vector for infrastructure-building?

Based on these insights, we conclude that through infrastructuralization “with Chinese characteristics,” WeChat’s platform model is a vector for infrastructure-building endeavors that prove to be both more successful than their state-backed precedents, and more controllable than purely private entities.

Is the WeChat platform model shaped by techno-nationalist media regulations?

Moreover, our findings showed that the infrastructuralization of the WeChat platform model in China is shaped by markedly techno-nationalist media regulations and an increasingly overt cyber- sovereignty agenda.

What makes WeChat a hybrid platform?

WeChat is an exemplary case of the infrastructural evolution of platforms that have succeeded commercially because of their properties, such as participation and programmability. They have become hybrid entities by rapidly achieving the scale and criticality of infrastructure.

Is WeChat a public utility?

The third answer is nationalization. Although WeChat increasing resembles a public utility, through its active collaboration with Chinese authorities in the development of public services (e.g., ID cards, city administration, etc.), it is not nationalized.