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This paper employed quantitative methods to explore the trends of audience research in Mainland China by analyzing research articles in three major journalism and communication academic journals. The author analyzed research approaches, research methods, medium of focus and theoretical frameworks in these audience research articles from 1985 to 2002. Unlike findings derived from the analyses of mass communication research articles in major international journals, most of the research articles in Mainland China used qualitative methods. Chinese scholars tend to adopt behaviorist and structural approaches towards the study of audience. The number of research articles that dealt with broadcast and print media exceeded any other media, while more and more studies on Internet users are being conducted. Chinese scholars began to develop theories in recent years. The future study will continue based on analysis of other research materials and comparison with audience research articles in leading international journals.(Asian J Commun/NIAS)

This study investigates the relationships between social connectedness and communication patterns from seven countries across the globe. In contrast to most existing studies, which focus on either single medium use or ICT-mediated multimodal connectedness, the study considers how people select and combine a set of communication modes for social connectedness. With survey data from the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and the Chinese mainland, the study examines the complexity of multimodal connectedness, that is, the diversity and the frequency of multiple communication modes and media through which people maintain their connections with different social relations. A latent class analysis identifies six clusters in the diversity and the frequency to illustrate the similarities and differences of communication patterns. Sociodemographic and country variables play distinct roles in predicting the clusters in the diversity and frequency dimensions, respectively. The theoretical and practical implications of this comparative study are discussed.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- Section I. Digital Kinship -- 2. Platform Genealogies -- 3. Friendly Social Surveillance -- Section II. Playful Kinship -- 4. Digital Gifts and Rituals -- 5. Playful Haptics in Families -- Section III. Visualizing Kinship -- 6. Personal Visual Collecting and Self-Cataloguing -- 7. Visual Generational Genres -- Section IV. Co-futuring Kinship -- 8. Re-imagining Digital Care and Health -- 9. Quotidian Care at a Distance -- 10. Conclusion -- Author Biographies -- Index

In Chapter 2, "Platform genealogies," we consider the continuities and discontinuities around LINE, WeChat, Facebook and WhatsApp as a digital genealogy. We explore the particular histories and practices informing those platforms—what Gillespie (2015) calls "the politics of platforms" or Lamarre calls (2017) "platformativity"—and why they are being adopted intergenerationally. For example, the developed and quick uptake of LINE was in direct response to the way in which mobile social media shifted in and after the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 known as 3/11.

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