Commercial Gentrification with Social Media Intervention: A Case Study of Nantai Alley in Nanjing
Received date: 2024-10-14
Revised date: 2025-01-23
Online published: 2025-08-14
City serves as a medium for communication and, in turn, reshapes the city. Since the 21st century, social media has rapidly spread worldwide, providing users with a platform for self-presentation and channels for expression. This has greatly changed people's lives and exerted a substantial influence on the reconstruction and gentrification of urban social spaces. However, few studies have focused on the underlying mechanisms. To gain a deeper understanding of the role of social media in commercial gentrification, Nantai Alley, a renowned Internet-famous block in Nanjing, was selected as a case study, and Xiaohongshu (Red note), whose main active user group is young women, was chosen to represent social media. This study conducted an in-depth analysis of the occurrence process, formation mechanism, and comprehensive effects of commercial gentrification under social media intervention. The research found that social media is deeply involved in the commercial gentrification process and continuously promotes the gentrification process through media information dissemination. Social media involvement in commercial gentrification is mainly achieved through two types of entities: merchants and consumers. On the one hand, social media provides merchants with replicable Internet celebrity aesthetics and business models and serves as a platform for self-marketing, increasing the probability of occurrence and promoting a more simplified and rapidly evolving trend of gentrification. On the other hand, consumers, engage in trendy check-ins and act as "discourse investors," accelerating commercial gentrification. Social media's representation of urban space amplifies and reinforces commercial gentrification; the progression and outcomes of gentrification are magnified on social media, occupying its central discursive spaces, whereas the daily lives and consumption practices of local residents are marginalized and rendered invisible in these digital representations. Furthermore, the profit-driven behaviors of certain local residents have laid the groundwork for gentrification, and the government has further consolidated the achievements of gentrification through urban renewal plans. The comprehensive effects triggered by commercial gentrification present significant dual characteristics: it exerts positive effects, such as commercial revitalization and beautification of the built environment, while also generating negative impacts, such as commercial exclusion, displacement, and cultural distinction from the neighborhood. Therefore, in future urban renewal processes, it is imperative for the government to intervene in a timely manner to preserve the community's original public value orientation and sense of place. This study enriches research on gentrification in the digital age by incorporating the factor of social media, and provides references for the renewal and management of urban space in the context of stock development.
Yuke Chen , Jie Sun , Tianke Zhu , Xigang Zhu . Commercial Gentrification with Social Media Intervention: A Case Study of Nantai Alley in Nanjing[J]. Tropical Geography, 2025 , 45(8) : 1449 -1460 . DOI: 10.13284/j.cnki.rddl.20240665
表1 受访者基本信息Table 1 Information of Interviewees |
编号 | 性别 | 在南台巷开店(居住)时间/a | 其他信息 |
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B1 | 男 | 3 | 咖啡店 |
B2 | 女 | 2.5 | 酒吧 |
B3 | 女 | 3 | 饰品店 |
B4 | 女 | 1 | 服装店 |
B5 | 男 | 2 | 玩具店 |
B6 | 女 | 1 | 饰品店 |
B7 | 女 | 9 | 服装店 |
B8 | 男 | 0.5 | 咖啡店 |
R1 | 女 | 19 | 业主 |
R2 | 男 | 31 | 业主 |
R3 | 女 | 8 | 业主 |
R4 | 女 | 47 | 业主 |
R5 | 女 | 2 | 租户 |
W1 | 女 | 4 | 物业管理人员 |
W2 | 男 | 5 | 房产中介 |
C1 | 女 | — | 人力资源从业者 |
C2 | 女 | — | 电子商务从业者 |
C3 | 男 | — | 自由职业 |
C4 | 女 | — | 学生 |
C5 | 女 | — | 隔壁街区店主 |
C6 | 女 | — | 学生 |
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图2 商业绅士化发生前(a. 2015年)和发生后(b. 2024年)南台巷业态分布Fig.2 Distribution of business formats on Nantai Alley before(a. 2015) and after(b. 2024) gentrification occurred |
表 2 南台巷业态构成变化Table 2 Changes in the business composition of Nantai Alley |
业态类型 | 业态占比/% | |
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2015年 | 2024年 | |
服装 | 50 | 20 |
餐饮 | 11 | 51 |
休闲 | 14 | 11 |
生活配套 | 8 | 9 |
其他 | 4 | 5 |
空置 | 6 | 4 |
住宅 | 8 | 0 |
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2 Yelp:美国最大点评网站,2004年,Yelp由前贝宝(Paypal)工程师杰里米·斯托普尔曼(Jeremy Stoppelman)和罗素·西蒙斯(Russel Simmons)共同于旧金山创建。目前,Yelp拥有累计超过2.65亿条评论。
3 MCN:多频道网络(Multi-Channel Network,MCN),是与内容创作者合作或直接生产各种独特内容的任何实体或组织,并在发布内容的网络平台上执行业务和营销功能。MCN为网红和自媒体提供内容策划制作、宣传推广、粉丝管理、签约代理等各类服务。
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