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Article: The power of digital activism for transnational advocacy: Leadership, engagement, and affordance

TitleThe power of digital activism for transnational advocacy: Leadership, engagement, and affordance
Authors
KeywordsAgency
computational methods
connective actions
digital power
elite politics
political communication
social media
social movements
transnational activism
Issue Date7-Mar-2023
PublisherSAGE Publications
Citation
New Media and Society, 2023 How to Cite?
Abstract

Recent literature has underscored the power of digital activism, but few studies have symmetrically examined its impact beyond domestic audiences and among illiberal regimes. The co-occurrence of mass protests in East and Southeast Asia in 2019-2021, when protesters called for help from international communities, offers a valuable opportunity to test the power of digital media. This study uses a data set of 154 million Twitter posts and a time-series model to contrast sets of collective action metrics and connective action metrics with a novel dependent variable-foreign politicians' responses. We then analyze the directional, intensity, and time-lagged effects of the relevant cue-taking processes. We find that the new metrics are more potent in predicting responses from foreign politicians. Agency- and network-centered metrics also outperform number- and intensity-oriented metrics across the three cases. These findings have implications for the roles of opinion leadership and engagement networks in digital activism.


Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/331289
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2023 Impact Factor: 4.5
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.118
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dc.contributor.authorCheng, Edmund W-
dc.contributor.authorLui, Elizabeth-
dc.contributor.authorFu, King-wa-
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-21T06:54:24Z-
dc.date.available2023-09-21T06:54:24Z-
dc.date.issued2023-03-07-
dc.identifier.citationNew Media and Society, 2023-
dc.identifier.issn1461-4448-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/331289-
dc.description.abstract<p></p><p>Recent literature has underscored the power of digital activism, but few studies have symmetrically examined its impact beyond domestic audiences and among illiberal regimes. The co-occurrence of mass protests in East and Southeast Asia in 2019-2021, when protesters called for help from international communities, offers a valuable opportunity to test the power of digital media. This study uses a data set of 154 million Twitter posts and a time-series model to contrast sets of collective action metrics and connective action metrics with a novel dependent variable-foreign politicians' responses. We then analyze the directional, intensity, and time-lagged effects of the relevant cue-taking processes. We find that the new metrics are more potent in predicting responses from foreign politicians. Agency- and network-centered metrics also outperform number- and intensity-oriented metrics across the three cases. These findings have implications for the roles of opinion leadership and engagement networks in digital activism.<br></p>-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherSAGE Publications-
dc.relation.ispartofNew Media and Society-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectAgency-
dc.subjectcomputational methods-
dc.subjectconnective actions-
dc.subjectdigital power-
dc.subjectelite politics-
dc.subjectpolitical communication-
dc.subjectsocial media-
dc.subjectsocial movements-
dc.subjecttransnational activism-
dc.titleThe power of digital activism for transnational advocacy: Leadership, engagement, and affordance-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/14614448231155376-
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dc.identifier.eissn1461-7315-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000945767300001-
dc.identifier.issnl1461-4448-

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