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From livelihood to livestream: Temporal opportunities of Chinese street vendors

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New Media & Society

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Abstract

New Media & Society, Ahead of Print.
Chinese street vendors use Douyin streaming to navigate precarious livelihoods in a platform economy. While existing research examines digital labor and emerging business models, it overlooks how informal workers manage the dual roles of running offline ...