{"id":5524,"date":"2025-04-28T09:37:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T01:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2025-05-01T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T06:21:41","slug":"from-streets-to-screens-digital-resistance-in-hong-kongs-anti-elab-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5524\/from-streets-to-screens-digital-resistance-in-hong-kongs-anti-elab-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"From Streets to Screens: Digital Resistance in Hong Kong\u2019s Anti-ELAB Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract\n\n\n\nIn 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 the ideas of affective publics and connected action to show how these platforms <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5524\/from-streets-to-screens-digital-resistance-in-hong-kongs-anti-elab-movement\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract In 2019, Hong Kong&#8217;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 the ideas of affective publics and connected action to show how these platforms &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1637,1638,1519,1529,1639,1642,1328],"class_list":["post-5524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onsc","tag-china-2","tag-hongkong","tag-politics","tag-protest","tag-telegram-2","tag-digital-resistance","tag-social-change"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5682,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions\/5682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}