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Author Lai, James S. (James Siu-Fong), 1968- author.

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

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2022.
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "Develops a 'connective action' model for Asian Americans to examine the relationship between social media platforms and civic engagement"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Political participation -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Asian Americans -- Political activity.
Asian Americans -- Political activity -- Case studies.
Internet and activism -- United States.
Internet and activism -- United States -- Case studies.
Civil society -- United States.
Communication in politics -- Technological innovations -- United States.
Asian Americans and mass media.
Asian Americans and mass media.
Asian Americans -- Political activity.
Civil society.
Communication in politics -- Technological innovations.
Internet and activism.
Political participation -- Technological innovations.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Other Form: Print version: Lai, James S. 1968- Asian American connective action in the age of social media Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2022 9781439919088 (DLC) 2021023013 (OCoLC)1246143325
ISBN 1439919100 electronic book
9781439919101 (electronic bk.)
9781439919095 paperback
9781439919088 hardcover