Examining the roles of social media and alternative media in social movement participation: A study of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

Shen, Fei; Xia, Chuanli; Škorić, Marko M.

doi:10.1016/j.tele.2019.101303

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“…In particular, Hong Kong’s social media platforms had become an ‘insurgent public sphere’ in the protest movement (Lee et al, 2015: 348) and ‘essential parts of “self-mobilisation processes” in which protest movements inspire new contestations in public discourse’ (Agur and Frisch, 2019: 2). The rise of alternative media also plays a significant role in continuously accelerating pro-democracy debates and a pro-protest attitude (Shen et al, 2020). Many Hong Kong citizens acquired political information from Internet alternative media, via social media (Lee, 2018).…”

Section: Who/what Affords Political Participation? From Decentralised...mentioning

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Enacting cross-platform (buy/boy)cotts: Yellow Economic Circle and the new citizen-consumer politics in Hong Kong

Poon

Tse

2022

New Media & Society

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While existing studies assert that citizens actively use digital media to exert their political agency, the various roles and impacts of digital media should be further unpacked. Building on the notions of ‘digital democratic affordance’ and ‘cross-platform play’, this article uniquely theorises political consumerism as a multi-scalar mode of human–non-human interactions. The concept of multi-scalar cross-platform affordances is formulated to demonstrate how different digital platforms – large or small, corporate or amateur, global or local – co-constitute an environment in which citizens are progressively channelled to engage in multiple platforms, reinvent them in concert with one another and participate in political consumption across time and space. In the case of the Yellow Economic Circle, against the backdrop of Hong Kong’s 2019–2020 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement, we examine such cross-platform dynamics and their multi-scalar enactment of everyday political consumption practices across four stages: deliberation, crowdsourcing, materialisation and habituation.

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Enacting cross-platform (buy/boy)cotts: Yellow Economic Circle and the new citizen-consumer politics in Hong Kong

Poon

Tse

2022

New Media & Society

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“…While some are ephemeral, emerging as a result of a large political change, many are longstanding and persist despite repeated attempts to silence activists. As digital media affords these movements new opportunities to garner global attention and support (Shen et al, 2020), counties have also had to develop new strategies for delegitimizing opposing activists and social movements.…”

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States vs. Social Movements: Protests and State Repression in Asia

Lukito

Cui

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This study considers how governments use state-sponsored propaganda and state violence in tandem to repress social movements and, in so doing, exacerbate polarization. We specifically focus on cases in young and non-democracies in East and Southeast Asia: China and Hong Kong, the Free Papua Movement in Indonesia, and Myanmar’s more recent coup. Using a time series analysis, our analysis reveals a temporal relationship between state propaganda and violence; however, we do not find much evidence that these state actions Granger-cause social movement activities. The exception to this is in Myanmar, where we find that repressive state actions decrease activity in Facebook groups criticizing the Tatmadaw, which in turn increases offline protest activities.

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“…59 As a result, social media has been positioned as a platform for 'obtaining protest-related information, forming insurgent informal networks, and mobilising individual participation'. 60 One example is the 'Twitter revolution' that occurred in 2011, where young people used their social media as a means to express their dissenting views and mobilise their peers against the Egyptian government and President Mubarak. 61 Social media is changing the way activists communicate their messages and amplify their outreach, with children and young people increasingly taking advantage of this.…”

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Beyond the familiar challenges for children and young people’s participation rights: the potential of activism

Tisdall

Cuevas‐Parra

2021

The International Journal of Human Rights

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Over the last 30 years, remarkable efforts have been made to understand and support children and young people's participation rights outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Despite these efforts, challenges remain consistently the same, such as tokenism, lack of sustainability, and accountability. This article reviews the progress and challenges for children and young people's participation. It then considers the potential of activism as a relatively novel concept for the children's rights field. Drawing on activism literature more generally, and considering examples of child activism, the article explores the potential of identity politics and social movements to challenge adult power, growing on-line activism and tensions between best interests, protection and participation. The article concludes that activism recognises children as political actors and problem solvers. The article develops the idea of an 'ecology of participation', which values respectful intergenerational relationships that develop 'critical social capital' for child activism and multiple participation forms -ranging from the more conventional, to protest, to transformation. This more extended conceptualisation of children and young people's participation builds on all the participation rights within the UNCRC, recognising them as minimum standards rather than final destinations, to create more expansive understandings and practices.

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Examining the roles of social media and alternative media in social movement participation: A study of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement

Cited by 25 publications

References 51 publications

Enacting cross-platform (buy/boy)cotts: Yellow Economic Circle and the new citizen-consumer politics in Hong Kong

Enacting cross-platform (buy/boy)cotts: Yellow Economic Circle and the new citizen-consumer politics in Hong Kong

States vs. Social Movements: Protests and State Repression in Asia

Beyond the familiar challenges for children and young people’s participation rights: the potential of activism

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