Media, Mobilization and the Umbrella Movement

ISBN-13: 9780367074722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 142 str.

Francis L. F. Lee

Opis

Comprising a series of high-quality contributions which examine various aspects of the media-movement nexus, this book analyses media communications during the 2014 Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Covering subjects including the mobilizing and informing power of mass and digital media, young activists’ digital media strategies, and local and international media coverage of the movement, the contributors offer fresh insights into the roles of media and communication in one of the most internationally prominent large-scale occupation campaigns in recent years. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Chinese Journal of Communication.

Spis treści

Introduction: Media Communication and the Umbrella Movement  1. Mobilization by images: TV screen and mediated instant grievances in the Umbrella Movement  2. Social media and Umbrella Movement: insurgent public sphere in formation  3. Media and information praxis of young activists in the Umbrella Movement  4. Social movement as civic education: communication activities and understanding of civil disobedience in the Umbrella Movement  5. A legal realist view on citizen actions in Hong Kong’s umbrella movement  6. Contested news values and media performance during the Umbrella Movement  7. Business as usual: the UK national daily press and the Occupy Central movement  8. The coming colonization of Hong Kong cyberspace: government responses to the use of new technologies by the umbrella movement  9. Yellow or blue ribbons: analysing discourses in conflict in the televised government-student meeting during the Occupy Movement in Hong Kong

O autorze

Francis L. F. Lee is a Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is lead author of Media, Social Mobilization, and Mass Protests in Post-colonial Hong Kong (2011) and author of Talk Radio, the Mainstream Press, and Public Opinion in Hong Kong (2014).