Networked Collective Actions: The Making of an Impeachment

ISBN-13: 9780197538890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str.

Hyunjin Seo

Opis

In Networked Collective Actions, Hyunjin Seo offers a comprehensive account of South Korean citizens' massive and sustained candlelight vigils in 2016-17, which led to impeachment and removal of then President Park Geun-hye. Based on interviews with key players in the impeachment movement and original analyses of news reports and social media posts, Seo untangles intricate interactions between different actors that were supported and sometimes constrained bythe technological, socio-political, and legal environments in which they occurred. In doing so, Seo examines how the broad public consensus on Park was achieved in a South Korean media environment characterized by polarization and low public trust, where extreme right-wing media outlets amplified conspiracytheories and false claims in opposition to impeachment.

Recenzje

Hyunjin Seo's Networked Collective Actions: The Making of an Impeachment is a much-needed addition to the growing literature on collective action, written from the intersection of media and politics. ... The framework Seo provides is inherently versatile and inclusive, reflecting the challenges brought on by digital technologies of different kinds and applicable to both non-Western and Western contexts. Soomin Seo, Asian Communication Research

O autorze

Hyunjin Seois Oscar Stauffer Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas as well as founding director of the KU Center for Digital Inclusion. She is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University. Her research examines how social collaborative networks facilitated by digital communication technologies affect social change, and she has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Her research has been funded by various federal agencies and foundations including National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Prior to her graduate studies in the United States, Seo covered politics and diplomacy for South Korean and international media outlets, reporting on South Korea's presidential office, six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear issues, and other major national and international events.