Relay activism and the flows of contentious publicness on WeChat: a case study of COVID-19 in China

Y Sun, S Wright - Information, Communication & Society, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores a case of public contention against the censoring of a feature article
about a COVID-19 whistleblower on the Chinese social media, WeChat. Moving beyond the …

I Provoke Therefore I Am: Cross-Border Mediatizations of Femen's “Sextremist” Protest

M Betlemidze, KM Deluca - International Journal of Communication, 2021 - ijoc.org
This article analyzes the (re) mediations of one of the pivotal protest events of the topless
female activist group Femen in Ukraine, Russia, France, and The Netherlands. We examine …

Managing the power of images: Environmental NGOs, networked public screens, and 'interactive'image events in China

S Liu, VG Huang - China Information, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Scholars have researched the 'wildness' or 'tameness' of public screens for staging image
events. This study argues that in non-democratic contexts, public screens are not totally wild …

WeChat in Silence? How WeChat surveillance and censorship experience impacts the digital communication behaviors of Filipino migrants in China

AN Peñafuerte III - 2024 - dspace.cuni.cz
Filipino migrants in China tread a fine line between tacit subservience and surreptitious
circumvention as they experience digital surveillance and censorship on WeChat. Through …

[PDF][PDF] MASTERARBEIT/MASTER'S THESIS

R Kostadinova - 2022 - phaidra.univie.ac.at
Technology has become an inseparable part of contemporary society. The modern person is
so accustomed to the comfort of innovative apps and tools that they rarely question the …