Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era: The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics)

"A powerful study of social and political mobilization in the digital age through a critical analysis of Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement. A case study with depth and insight, but also offering plenty of critical reflections at the theoretical level. Its relevance goes beyond Hong Kong and Asian studies. Indeed, students of media studies and social movement analysis will find the authors providing them with new insights for analyzing connective actions, the social processes of mobilization, and the framing of protest." --Tai-lok Lui, co-author of Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City "This is a brilliant, compelling, and measured analysis that zooms in and out of the most important popular movement in Hong Kong's history. Weaving vivid and massive data into a theoretically informed narrative, Lee and Chan reveal stunning and colliding dynamics between media and movement in the digital age. This insightful and accessible book deserves to be widely read by social scientists, civil society activists, policymakers, and the general public." --Ching Kwan Lee, author of The Specter of Global China "Marshalling rich empirical data collected on-site, Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era provides the first systematic study of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Its insightful analysis of the tensions between organization and decentralization and between collective and connective action represents the most important and original theoretical interventions in the study of digital media and social movements I have seen in recent years." --Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania