Social Movements in Taiwan and Hong Kong

Asian Survey ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-289
Author(s):  
Dachi Liao ◽  
Hsin-Che Wu ◽  
Boyu Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Explanatory Framework ◽  
New Type

We propose the logic of communitive action to analyze digitally networked social movements. Through an examination of Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, we offer an explanatory framework of community consciousness that elucidates a new type of leadership, and discuss crowdsourcing as a supplement to the theory of social movements in the digital age.

Aestheticizing Violence Within Transmedia Storytelling Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 484-500
Author(s):  
Ferhat Zengin ◽  
Bahadır Kapır
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Social Organisation ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Transmedia Storytelling ◽  
The Social ◽  
Totalitarian Regimes ◽  
V For Vendetta

In this study, V for Vendetta (2006) directed by James McTeigue, is analysed based on Henry Jenkins's transmedia storytelling terms. Henry Jenkins defines re-creating a story with different media tools as “transmedia storytelling” and evaluates this new storytelling form that emerged in the digital age as a new aesthetic linked with active participation that creates new demands on the consumer. V for Vendetta with a large fan audience has a story that became the symbol of the social movements that emerged against totalitarian regimes created in the modern state and social organisation. The story V for Vendetta that was first published at the beginning of 1980s as a dystopic comic book prioritising violence and terror experienced changes in the story with the effect of different narrative media. Within this context, this study with Henry Jenkins's transmedia storytelling theoretical basis analyzes how the main narrative elements of the story such as terror, violence, fear, and freedom are reflected in the V for Vendetta movie by using semiotic methods.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngok Ma ◽  
Edmund W. Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Student Movements ◽  
Hybrid Regimes ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Civil Resistance ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Hybrid Regime

Analysis of the 2014 Umbrella Movement speaks to three strands of academic literature: contentious politics and space, hybrid regimes and democratization, and social movements in China and Hong Kong. Based mostly on fieldwork conducted during the occupation, this book brings together 14 experts who studied the Umbrella Movement from different theoretical perspectives with different methodologies. The studies in the book analyze the occupation as a spontaneous and emotional contentious action, which made good use of public space and creative passion. They also show how civil resistance was shaped and constrained by the hybrid regime and situate the Hong Kong movement in a broader comparative perspective in reference to past student movements in China and protests in Taiwan and Macau.

scholarly journals Hidden youth? A new perspective on the sociality of young people ‘withdrawn’ in the bedroom in a digital age

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 1227-1244
Author(s):  
Mark Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Young People ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Online Networks ◽  
Qualitative Evidence ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Uk

The complexities and changing experiences of human connections have long been debated. In the digital age, technology becomes an increasingly crucial dimension of sociality. This article critically discusses the sociality of ‘hidden’ young people who shut themselves in the bedroom and are typically assumed to be socially withdrawn. This article challenges this reclusive depiction and presents qualitative evidence from the first study of this phenomenon in the UK/Scottish context, while studying this comparatively across two sites. Thirty-two interviews were conducted with Hong Kong and Scottish youth ‘withdrawn’ in the bedroom for 3 to 48 months; hidden youth’s sociality was found to be more nuanced and interconnected than previously assumed. This article argues that young people can become especially attached to online communities to seek solace and solidarity as they experience social marginalisation. Technology and online networks play an important role in enabling marginalised young people to feel connected in the digital age.

Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 1515-1517
Author(s):  
Xiaoyi Tang ◽  
Jin Xue
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Digital Age
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