Collaboration for Rights of the Shidu and Its Interaction Mechanisms: A Virtual Ethnography on the Network Community of the Home of the Shidu

Abstract

As the by-product of the one-child policy, the shiduhave become a growing segment of the population. Their inherent characteristics, as well as their social relationships and means of interacting with the external environment, are issues that deserve our attention. Through compiling a virtual ethnology of the social media platform “Home of the Shidu”, as well as describing interactive processes such as the shiduindividuals’ integration into and commiseration with the group, the collaborative defense of their rights, fragmentation within the community, and renewed legal defense efforts, the author analyzes the characteristics and mechanisms of the shiduand attempts to better understand the realities of their existence and demands.