Wounded mothers, platformed pain: Victimized motherhood in China’s platformed creator economy
Published online on April 18, 2026
Abstract
New Media & Society, Ahead of Print.
This article examines how mom creators on Xiaohongshu articulate maternal pain and reproductive suffering as a form of digital victimhood. I conceptualize these articulations as victimized motherhood, a platform-mediated mode of maternal subjectivity that ...
This article examines how mom creators on Xiaohongshu articulate maternal pain and reproductive suffering as a form of digital victimhood. I conceptualize these articulations as victimized motherhood, a platform-mediated mode of maternal subjectivity that ...