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...

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Publicado en:	British Journal of Criminology Vol. 66; no. 5; pp. 940 - 959
Autores principales:	Yang, Haiyan, Xu, Jianhua
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Oxford University Press / USA Sep2026
Materias:	China Macau (China : Special Administrative Region) Social media Online identities Informal sector Ethnology research Smuggling Organizational governance Real-time control
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