Digital Disobedience and the Limits of Persuasion: Social Media Activism in Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement

This article probes the catalytic features of social media in civic participation and mass civil disobedience in Hong Kong’s 2014 protests, and conceptualizes digital activism in terms of mobilization, organization, and persuasion. It makes use of in-depth interviews, in English, Mandarin, and Canto...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Colin Agur, Nicholas Frisch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-02-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305119827002