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From Streets to Screens: Digital Resistance in Hong Kong’s Anti-ELAB Movement
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wingshan.sy
Abstract In 2019, Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement demonstrated how digital platforms could be used to sustain distributed protest networks under authoritarian pressure. This paper explores how protesters used Telegram to facilitate anonymous, leaderless coordination and how WhatsGap allowed political engagement through everyday consumer practices, forming the Yellow Economic Circle. The paper uses…
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Social Media Affordances: Donald Trump, Politics and Social Change
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John Lim
Abstract By first establishing a cynical political climate, this paper highlights how Donald Trump was able to secure votes from the growing disgruntled alt-right public. This paper also utilizes successful movement from Tahrir Square and MyBarackObama to showcase social media’s power to mobilize publics for social change. The analysis show that attention commodity and decentralized…
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Hi Shannon Kate, You’re right to ask; it is incredibly difficult to police these issues today. Predatory behaviour isn’t exclusive…