Online counter‐mobilisation via social media: Exploration of pro‐regime opinion leaders in Hong Kong under Chinese sovereignty
Ying‐ho Kwong
Abstract:The literature has long recognised non‐democratic regimes that are increasingly using Internet manipulation to undermine the opposition. Apart from network control, content surveillance and paying for Internet commentators, the implications of the new trend of online counter‐mobilisation remain to be explored. By analysing 5124 YouTube videos of Hong Kong's Anti‐extradition Bill Protests, this study examines how pro‐regime opinion leaders counter‐mobilised pro‐regime contents and Internet users responded to th… Show more
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