1st Edition

Media, Internet, and Social Movements in Hong Kong Control and Protest

By Carol P. Lai, Andrew Y. To Copyright 2025
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

Focusing on the unique story of the "recolonisation" of Hong Kong since 2019, this book describes the environment of news gathering and publishing during this period and studies how this has connected to wider political, economic, and social changes. Media, Internet and Social Movements in Hong Kong considers the operation of the news media in this divided region to illuminate the... Read more

Foreword

By Tim Hamlett

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Autonomy Seized, Democracy Denied, and Destiny Failed: How the Chinese Communist Party’s Hong Kong Policy Caused the Early Death of “One Country, Two Systems”

Andrew Y. To

Chapter 3: Media, Internet and the Civil Movement in Hong Kong: Control and Protest (part 1: control)

Chapter 4: Media, Internet and Civil movement in Hong Kong: Control and Protest (part 2 protest)

Chapter 5: Concluding remarks

Afterword

By Carol P. Lai

Index

 

 

Biography

Carol P. Lai is a retired Associate Professor in Global Communication Program at Akita International University, Japan.

Andrew Y. To is a retired Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism at Hong Kong Baptist University.