Is Negotiation Possible Without Leadership in a Networked Social Movement? A Case Study of 2019 Hong Kong Protests

• In Event: Authoritarianism and Responses across Asia

Brief Overview

This paper computes a text analysis to analyze the social media posts during the 2019 Hong Kong protests to explain why the protestors failed to initiate negotiation even though the protestors were expected to be repressed by the government.

Authors

• Kelvin Chun-Man Chan, The University of Texas at Dallas

• Wilson Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong