A paper on WeChat and why we *do not* want an app that does everything. https://t.co/iBbsHv0rO4 TLDR - infrastructuralisation creates barriers to access, like losing your phone. An app that's everything also means one company is in control of everything
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to unspool the history of this article: me and @JCPlantin came up with this idea as part of a much larger analysis of the infrastructuralization of WeChat https://t.co/XyzgK8bIse
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WeChat as infrastructure: the techno-nationalist shaping of Chinese digital platforms https://t.co/gk9V50jtKk
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RT @SanNuvola: @robyncaplan @JCPlantin and me started thinking about QR codes as infrastructural gateways in here https://t.co/C6lhmeNZZY h…