Article published in:
Dialogue and Ways of RelatingEdited by Huey-Rong Chen
[Language and Dialogue 10:1] 2020
► pp. 74–96
After mobilization
Youth, political engagement, and online performance in Hong Kong
Iam-chong Ip | Lingnan University (Hong Kong)
My research addresses how social actors “act upon” social change by generating self-interpretation and
representation of social life on the one hand and control over values and cultural orientations against the authorities on the
other. While the existing literature on social movements overemphasizes the moments of mobilization, this article examines the
intersections of social activism, online curative practices, and their everyday life. For this article, I opted to depict three
representative cases of Hong Kong young activists who joined the Umbrella Movement in 2014. I argue that despite their similar
political experiences, there are three divergent forms of agency embodied in their cultural representations. They figure in
contestations which increasingly alienate the politicized crowd from civil society and the establishment.
Keywords: social movement and on-line performance, internet-related ethnography, critical discourse analysis, Hong Kong Umbrella Movement, political participation of youth
Published online: 19 May 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00060.ip
https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.00060.ip
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