Lost in deliberative deficit: the dilemma and learning curve of defending the university campus in the Hong Kong 2019 protest

This study examined the sleep pattern of Hong Kong residents during the anti-extradition bill controversy from June to December of 2019. We used crowdsourced sleep data of 5,442,005 sleep records from 76,600 users (15,693 records from 274 users who were Hong Kong residents at the time of the study, mean age 33.3, SD 9.6). A total of 123 participants (44.9%) provided at least 30 days of data. We compared these sleep parameters in Year 2019 to their expected values. The expected value of these variables was computed using linear regression, controlling for time zone, the month of the record, and the day of the record (S/M/T/W/T/F/S). At the nights of major protest events, habitual sleep duration of the participants was reduced by 8 to 23 min and delayed their sleep onset by at most 34 min. Date-specific analysis (12th June, 21st July, 31st August, 1st October, 12th November, 23rd November, and 24th November) revealed Hong Kong residents changed their sleep pattern according to the timeline of the protests.

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To trust or not to trust? How Hong Kong protesters build and maintain trust in a leaderless movement

Madsen,

2024

Culture & Psychology

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Protesters in leaderless movements face serious challenges when searching for reliable and trustworthy information in risky environments. Without formal structures to validate information, protestors are left to their own to evaluate the trustworthiness of information in a context where fake social media accounts and deception is possible. We interview protesters from the Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill movement to uncover how they develop trust in fellow protesters and information channels. We find that trust in collective political actions goes beyond the idea of social trust and include the concept of informational trust. Social and informational trust are intertwined with social media as well as with actual practices online and offline. In addition, the so-called ‘sentinel’ structure emerged organically. Information appears to be verified by multiple anonymous and independent sentinels for protestors to believe it. This is a sophisticated attendance to structural information source dependencies. Protestors use a mixture of social, communicative, and dependency cues to decide who and what to trust. They also use social media that has a dual role – simultaneously a community-building information space and a space for misinformation. The paper provides qualitative insight into how protesters deal with social and informational trust in leaderless movements.

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Lost in deliberative deficit: the dilemma and learning curve of defending the university campus in the Hong Kong 2019 protest

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Life Meaningfulness, Law Abidance, and Social Risk Among Hong Kong Youth

Life Meaningfulness, Law Abidance, and Social Risk Among Hong Kong Youth

Sleep pattern of Hong Kong residents during the 2019 anti-extradition bill controversy

To trust or not to trust? How Hong Kong protesters build and maintain trust in a leaderless movement

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