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

"Social media provides ethno-racial immigrant groups--especially those who cannot vote due to factors such as lack of citizenship and limited English proficiency--the ability to mobilize and connect around collective issues. Online spaces and discussion forums have encouraged many Asian America...

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Main Author: Lai, James S. (James Siu-Fong), 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2022.
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505 0 |a Logging On and Getting Civically Connected -- The Racial Paradox and Emerging Political Contours of Asian Americans: How Connective Action Challenges and Amplifies Them -- Conceptualizing a Model for Asian American Connective Action -- Case Study 1: The 2016 Trial of New York Police Department Officer Peter Liang and the Connective Action Mobilization by First Generation Chinese Americans -- Case Study 2: The Asian American Community's Online and Offline Affirmative Action Battle Over the 2012 California Senate Constitutional Amendment 5 Bill -- Case Study 3: Data Disaggregation and the 2016 California Assembly Bill 1726: How Connective Action Helped Determine the Narrative and Outcome -- Case Study 4: The 18 Million Rising Website and Its Role as an Online Conduit for Progressive Asian American Activism -- Case Study 5: The 2016 California Textbook Controversy: South Asian Americans and the #DontEraseIndia Campaign -- Case Study 6: Establishing World War II Korean Comfort Women Memorials in U.S. Cities and the Online Mobilization Against Them -- On the Virtues and Perils of Asian American Connective Action. 
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