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Song, Eunkyung. Power from the fingertips: writing alone and working together in the 2008 candlelight protests. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-e057-9m43

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TitlePower from the fingertips: writing alone and working together in the 2008 candlelight protests
NameSong, Eunkyung (author); McLean, Paul (chair); Gerson, Judith (internal member); Williams, Richard (internal member); Mische, Ann (outside member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2019
Other Date2019-05 (degree)
SubjectDigital interactions, Sociology, Demonstrations -- Korea (South) -- 21st century -- Sociological aspects
Extent1 online resource (x, 258 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionThis dissertation examines how online communication shapes protests with a case study of the 2008 Candlelight Protests that took place in South Korea. To investigate how protest claims and repertoires are developed initially and transformed over time, I propose a departure from individual-oriented approaches that overly emphasize individuality and network-oriented approaches that treat online communication as a static conduit of messages. Instead, I stress both the interactive and dynamic process of online communication, which I explore through semantic network analysis and qualitative analysis applied to a collection of digital posts. In so doing, I focus on how micro-interactions form large-scale protests under communicative constraints in digital platforms, depending on the degree of exclusivity to a specific topic and the degree of anonymity. The findings of this dissertation demonstrate that anonymity and dissensus shaped solidarity during the 2008 Candlelight Protests as follows. Topic modeling and network analysis applied to digital posts show that protest claims were formed out of the messiness of concurrent issues, whose coherence emerged from repeated patterns of connecting and disconnecting those issues. The protest repertoires of the 2008 Candlelight Protests that promoted legal protests were an outcome of fierce disputes over the fact that the participants were anonymous online without a decision-making process that bound them. My semantic network analysis, which conceptualizes a single sequence of digital interaction as a set of an initial post and replies given to it, reveals how disputes themselves drove interacting parties to envision a collective, which both reaffirmed the legality repertoire and led to new layers of disputes. In conclusion, I propose further research regarding the implications of legality as protest repertoires both in the studied protest case and similar cases that came later; semantic network analysis with an emphasis on the dynamics of interactions; and the potentiality of replies in digital interactions for relational sociology.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-e057-9m43
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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