Hua Wang
ABSTRACT
Drawing on digital genre theory with a focus on textual analysis, this research focuses on a WeChat official account, MAYLOVE, to analyze how it create various genres of multimodal texts to communicate sex-related knowledge to the subscribers. With regular updates and push notifications, MAYLOVE works as education and empowerment by spreading sex-related knowledge, which may help accommodate sex education exigency in China.
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