Social media and Umbrella Movement: insurgent public sphere in formation

Lee, Paul S. N.; So, Clement Y. K.; Leung, Louis

doi:10.1080/17544750.2015.1088874

Cited by 110 publications

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“…Counter-public spheres often emerge when this mainstream public discourse fails to provide a rational or critical discourse about an issue of common concern (Calhoun, 1993). As outlined by prior studies on China's public sphere, new information and communication technologies, and social media in particular, have contributed to the emergence of counter-public spheres in that country (Lee, So, & Leung, 2015;Sima, 2011;Rauchfleisch & Schäfer, 2015).…”

Section: Science and The Public Spherementioning

confidence: 99%

Contested Chinese Dreams of AI? Public discourse about Artificial intelligence on WeChat and People’s Daily Online

Zeng

Chan

Schäfer

2020

Information, Communication & Society

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a prominent public issue, particularly in China, where the government has announced plans to turn the country into a global AI power. This study analyses public discourse about AI in China through the conceptual lens of public spheres theory and counterpublic spheres. It compares the official AI narrative on People's Daily Online with public discussion about AI on the social medium WeChat, where we assumed that official views would be challenged. Using a combination of qualitative and computational methods, 140,000 AI-related articles published between 2015 and 2018 were studied. Findings reveal that AI-related discourse on WeChat is surprisingly similar to that on People's Daily Online. That is, it is dominated by industry and political actors, such as government agencies and technology companies, and is mostly characterized by discussions about the economic potential of the technology, with strongly positive evaluations, and little critical debate.

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Section: Science and The Public Spherementioning

confidence: 99%

Contested Chinese Dreams of AI? Public discourse about Artificial intelligence on WeChat and People’s Daily Online

Zeng

Chan

Schäfer

2020

Information, Communication & Society

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“…Kuwaiti activists, for example, organised a peaceful solidarity march to support the Saudi women's campaign under the hashtag #walkingforher. As Lee et al (2015) point out, social media's ability to put national affairs under global scrutiny may result in international pressure on the state to reduce suppression of activism and has the potential to result in increased freedom.…”

Section: Drawing International Attention To Campaignsmentioning

confidence: 99%

#EndMaleGuardianship: Women’s rights, social media and the Arab public sphere

Thorsen

Sreedharan

2019

New Media & Society

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This study examines the online communicative dynamics between women and men during the Saudi women’s rights campaign to end male guardianship, which unfolded on Twitter. We analysed 2.7 million tweets with the #EndMaleGuardianship hashtag over a 7-month period quantitatively and 150,245 of these qualitatively to examine the extent to which Twitter shapes and facilitates cross-gender communication, and how this helped engender new spaces for expression of dissent. Our study shows that Twitter provided shared online communicative spaces that had several characteristics commonly associated with public sphere(s). There is also evidence that using these alternatives spaces, women transcended to an extent the gender segregation that exists in traditional public discourses and spaces of Saudi society. The anonymity of Twitter offered women a safe place to deliberate their concerns about male guardianship. We suggest that these deliberations created a counterpublic sphere of sorts, which helped Saudi women legitimise the #EndMaleGuardianship campaign.

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“…Emojis-cutesy ideograms that originated on Japanese mobile phone in the 1990's -now speak the thousands of words that we struggle to use to convey our emotions (Stark and Crawford, 2015). Revolutions are being plotted across images and short texts: for example, the use of Twitter during the Arab Spring (Bruns, Highfield, and Burgess, 2013) and WhatsApp during the 'Umbrella Revolution' (Lee, So, and Leung, 2015). The photograph of Alan Kurdi washed ashore became an iconic symbol for the migrant crisis, causing a global surge of sympathy and rise in charity donation (Ibrahim, 2018).…”

Section: The Visual In He: An Inferior and Illegitimate Cousin To Words?mentioning

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Power, Play and Pedagogy through the PowerPoint Performance-Lecture

Tan¹

2020

IJMAR

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What could a visual-led approach to the learning and teaching of complex issues look like for a short online synchronous session? Through a playful performance-lecture exploring concepts in diversity, interdisciplinarity and social change entitled What could a neurodiversity-led 2050 look like?, this paper outlines the possibilities of visual-centred approach, using the ubiquitous Microsoft software PowerPoint (or open-sourced equivalents like Google Slides and Prezi). It seeks to contribute to discourses and practices around role of visual approaches in Higher Education (HE) to address ‘difficult’ topics like power and inequality in an engaging manner, and to empower learners as active participants, including those who may be think visually, such as dyslexic learners. Such approaches will be urgent in a reality characterised by profound socio-political injustice highlighted by Black Lives Matter (BLM), and amid a global pandemic, where teaching occurs online, and where learners and teachers alike may be short of time, attention and resources. Highlighting techniques and perspectives from art, film and neurodiversity, it invites the consideration of the PowerPoint performance-lecture as a simple yet engaging and responsive process for higher order learning and creative thinking. A secondary point of the article to call for HE to itself apply a degree of critical and creative thinking about its own position, to use self-knowledge to do better, in order to move forward. It welcomes feedback and challenges, and calls for the creation of yet more playful, innovative, visual-led approaches in the learning and teaching of complex issues in Higher Education.

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Social media and Umbrella Movement: insurgent public sphere in formation

Cited by 110 publications

References 49 publications

Contested Chinese Dreams of AI? Public discourse about Artificial intelligence on WeChat and People’s Daily Online

Contested Chinese Dreams of AI? Public discourse about Artificial intelligence on WeChat and People’s Daily Online

#EndMaleGuardianship: Women’s rights, social media and the Arab public sphere

Power, Play and Pedagogy through the PowerPoint Performance-Lecture

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