One Social Movement, Two Social Media Sites: A Comparative Study of Public Discourses

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dc.contributor.authorKou, Yubo
dc.contributor.authorKow, Yong Ming
dc.contributor.authorGui, Xinning
dc.contributor.authorCheng, Waikuen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-30T12:02:05Z
dc.date.available2017-05-30T12:02:05Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractSocial media have become central places where public discourses are generated, sustained, and circulated around public events. So far, much research has examined large-scale dissemination patterns of prominent statements, opinions, and slogans circulated on social media, such as the analysis of keywords and hashtags on Twitter regarding a political event. However, little attention has been paid to understanding how local socio-cultural-political conditions influence the formation and development of public discourses on social media. To explore this question, we analyzed public discourses about Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement on two distinct social media sites, Facebook and Weibo, the largest micro-blogging service in China. Facebook topped Hong Kong citizens’ usage of social media sites, while Weibo’s primary user base is mainland Chinese. The social movement and these two social media sites provide a unique opportunity to explore the commonalities and differences between social media discourses generated by two different cultures. Using grounded theory and discourse analysis, we reveal how people on two sites reasoned about the many incidents of the movement and developed sometimes similar but other times strikingly different discourses. We trace the links between different discourses and the socio-cultural-political conditions of Hong Kong and mainland China. We discuss how this study may contribute deeper understandings of public discourses on social media to the CSCW literature.
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10606-017-9284-y
dc.identifier.pissnISSN 0925-9724
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer, London
dc.relation.ispartofComputer Supported Cooperative Work 26(4-5)- ECSCW 2017: Proceedings of the 15th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
dc.relation.ispartofseriesECSCW
dc.subjectChina
dc.subjectDiscourse analysis
dc.subjectFacebook
dc.subjectHong Kong
dc.subjectLocalness of social media discourse
dc.subjectPublic discourse
dc.subjectSocial media
dc.subjectSynchronicity
dc.subjectUmbrella movement
dc.subjectWeibo
dc.titleOne Social Movement, Two Social Media Sites: A Comparative Study of Public Discourses
dc.typeText/Conference Paper
gi.conference.date28 August - 1 September 2017
gi.conference.locationSheffield, UK
gi.conference.sessiontitleLong Papers

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