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Wild hopes: Sourcing the political vocabulary of digital citizenship from the LIHKG forum.
- Source :
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International Communication Gazette . Jun2022, Vol. 84 Issue 4, p349-375. 27p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- In the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill resistance movement, Hong Kong netizens used a popular digital platform known as LIHKG (連登) as a communicative center to exchange time-based information, express outrage or solidarity, and assemble decentered actions of agitation. There was an implied sense that LIHKG was facilitating a "wild" mode of politics oriented toward agitation, disturbance, and chaos. This paper examines its "wild politics" and asks: how might we trace the evolution of a complex political vernacular capable of creating a chaotic form of organizing, and what did this vocabulary tell us about the latent meanings, desires, and identity-making of the networked protesters? Utilizing the LDA topic-modelling method, we analyzed a large corpus of discussion threads on LIHKG to develop a customized domain-specific thematic repertoire, and revealed a "language in the wild" as part of a cultural archive that embodied the netizens' ambivalent hopes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *VOCABULARY
*CITIZENSHIP
*COMMUNICATIVE action
*FORUMS
*HOPE
*DIGITAL technology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17480485
- Volume :
- 84
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- International Communication Gazette
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 156865417
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/17480485221094123