Social Media in Social Movements: A Computational Approach to Collective Actions
Event Description [for more information, click HERE]
Social media has no doubt played a crucial role in recent social movements. In part to understand the logic between “collective actions” and “connective actions,” Dr. King-wa Fu and his research team at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong have, since June 2019, examined the texts and images from over 1,200 public Telegram channels (as well as other sources) linked to the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill Movement. In this talk, members Gary Fong and Elgar Teo will share the team’s preliminary findings in the following areas: extraction of calls for mobilization and of reports of tear gas; networks of protest-related channels; memefication of online mobilization; and classification of political posters.
Gary Fong and Elgar Teo are members of the Research Team for the ANTIELAB Research Data Archive(antielabdata.jmsc.hku.hk) housed at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. Mr. Fong is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Penn State University, and Mr. Teo will be an M.Sc. student at the Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.
Gary Fong and Elgar Teo are members of the Research Team for the ANTIELAB Research Data Archive(antielabdata.jmsc.hku.hk) housed at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. Mr. Fong is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Political Science at Penn State University, and Mr. Teo will be an M.Sc. student at the Internet Institute at the University of Oxford.
This webinar is organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative and is co-sponsored by: Department of Asian Studies, Department of History, Centre for Chinese Research, Asian Library, and the Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster.
Details:
Date and Time: Friday, 9 April 2021, 19:00–20:30 PDT via Zoom
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