Asian American connective action in the age of social media : civic engagement, contested issues, and emerging identities /

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

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Main Author: Lai, James S. (James Siu-Fong), 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2022
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Table of 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.