Constituting and Engaging in Transnational Media Activism Locally: A Case Study of Hong Kong In-Media

• In Event: ICA Plenary Interactive Paper/Poster Session and Reception
  In Interactive Paper Session: Global Communication and Social Change Interactive Poster Session

Abstract

Since the last decade, concomitant with the development of the global justice movement, there has been an emergence of transnational media activism - a rapid rise of Internet-based media activisms around the globe, posing increasing challenges to the political-economic establishments and media status quo.
This is a case study of a local media activism organization in Hong Kong - the Hong Kong In-media. Through an analysis of its historical developments, it discusses how a local media activism is situated in and connects with the broader landscape of transnational media activism. The connection between the local and transnational media activisms is shown in the local activists’ appropriation of the ideas and practices from the global exemplars, and in their attempt to mobilize transnational resources by forging tangible co-operations with the counterparts elsewhere. Their contributions to transnational media activism in particular and transnational activism in general will be discussed.

Author

• Dennis K.K. Leung, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong