How Social Media Facilitate the Governance of the Underground Economy: The Case of Petty Smuggling in Macao SAR, China.
This paper examines how social media platforms are utilized to solve the problem of goods-related scams by smugglers in Macao's petty smuggling industry. By collecting primary data through 61 interviews, fieldwork in a petty smuggling hotspot between Macao and mainland China, and cyber-ethnography i...
| Publicado en: | British Journal of Criminology Vol. 66; no. 5; pp. 940 - 959 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Sep2026
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