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Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era - The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong (Hardcover)
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Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era - The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
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Digital and social media are increasingly integrated into the
dynamics of protest movements around the world. They strengthen the
mobilization power of movements, extend movement networks,
facilitate new modes of protest participation, and give rise to new
protest formations. Meanwhile, conventional media remains an
important arena where protesters and their targets contest for
public support. This book examines the role of the media -
understood as an integrated system comprised of both conventional
media institutions and digital media platforms - in the formation
and dynamics of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. For 79 days in
2014, Hong Kong became the focus of international attention due to
a public demonstration for genuine democracy that would become
known as the Umbrella Movement. During this time, twenty percent of
the local population would join the demonstration, the most
large-scale and sustained act of civil disobedience in Hong Kong's
history - and the largest public protest campaign in China since
the 1989 student movement in Beijing. On the surface, this movement
was not unlike other large-scale protest movements that have
occurred around the world in recent years. However, it was distinct
in how bottom-up processes evolved into a centrally organized,
programmatic movement with concrete policy demands. In this book,
Francis L. F. Lee and Joseph M. Chan connect the case of the
Umbrella Movement to recent theorizations of new social movement
formations. Here, Lee and Chan analyze how traditional mass media
institutions and digital media combined with on-the-ground networks
in such a way as to propel citizen participation and the evolution
of the movement as a whole. As such, they argue that the Umbrella
Movement is important in the way it sheds light on the rise of
digital-media-enabled social movements, the relationship between
digital media platforms and legacy media institutions, the power
and limitations of such occupation protests and new "action
logics," and the continual significance of old protest logics of
resource mobilization and collective action frames. Through a
combination of protester surveys, population surveys, analyses of
news contents and social media activities, this book reconstructs a
rich and nuanced account of the Umbrella Movement, providing
insight into numerous issues about the media-movement nexus in the
digital era.
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