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Asian American connective action in the age of social media : civic engagement, contested issues, and emerging identities / James S. Lai.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lai, James S. (James Siu-Fong), 1968- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political participation--Technological innovations--United States.
- Political participation.
- Asian Americans--Political activity.
- Asian Americans.
- Asian Americans--Political activity--Case studies.
- Internet and activism--United States.
- Internet and activism.
- Internet and activism--United States--Case studies.
- Civil society--United States.
- Civil society.
- Communication in politics--Technological innovations.
- Communication in politics.
- Political participation--Technological innovations.
- United States.
- Communication in politics--Technological innovations--United States.
- Asian Americans and mass media.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Lai, James S. 1968- Asian American connective action in the age of social media
- ISBN:
- 9781439919101
- 1439919100
- Publisher Number:
- 40030899335
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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