CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Suga, Mirella Éva |
|---|---|
| Title | Today's Hong Kong, Tomorrow's Taiwan: Social Movements and Social Media |
| Summary | In this thesis, I explore the relationship between social media and social movements. The cases I have chosen to examine are the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong and the Sunflower Movement in Taiwan. These two movements were chosen because of their similarity of background, yet different outcome. By collecting data off of Facebook and Twitter, I perform a qualitative content analysis to discern the utility of posts and identify themes of discourse. This is largely and exploratory these, but by examining the movements I find that differences between movements, social media platforms, and discourses in different languages both within-movement and between movement differences exist, but by understanding the differences we can provide a better understanding of the formation of social media discourses across cultures and their relative effectiveness for movement success. |
| Supervisor | Lup, Oana |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/suga_mirella.pdf |
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