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Record Nr.

UNINA9910861976703321

Autore

Lai James S

Titolo

Asian American connective action in the age of social media : Civic Engagement, Contested Issues, and Emerging Identities

Pubbl/distr/stampa

, : Temple University Press, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-4399-1910-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 pages)

Disciplina

323/.0420973

Soggetti

Political participation - Technological innovations - United States

Asian Americans - Political activity

Internet and activism - United States

Civil society - United States

Communication in politics - Technological innovations - United States

Asian Americans and mass media

Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Logging On and Getting Civically Connected -- Chapter 2. The Racial Paradox and Emerging Political Contours of Asian Americans: How Connective Action Challenges and Amplifies Them -- Chapter 3. Conceptualizing a Model for Asian American Connective Action -- Chapter 4. Case Study 1: The 2016 Trial of New York Police Department Officer Peter Liang and the Connective Action Mobilization by First Generation Chinese Americans -- Chapter 5. Case Study 2: The Asian American Community's Online and Offline Affirmative Action Battle Over the 2012 California Senate Constitutional Amendment 5 Bill -- Chapter 6. Case Study 3: Data Disaggregation and the 2016 California Assembly Bill 1726: How Connective Action Helped Determine the Narrative and Outcome -- Chapter 7. Case Study 4: The 18 Million Rising Website and Its Role as an Online Conduit for Progressive Asian American Activism -- Chapter 8. Case Study 5: The 2016 California Textbook Controversy: South Asian Americans and the #DontEraseIndia Campaign -- Chapter 9. Case Study 6: Establishing



World War II Korean Comfort Women Memorials in U.S. Cities and the Online Mobilization Against Them -- Chapter 10. On the Virtues and Perils of Asian American Connective Action.

Sommario/riassunto

"Develops a 'connective action' model for Asian Americans to examine the relationship between social media platforms and civic engagement"--