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Power from the fingertips: writing alone and working together in the 2008 candlelight protests
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Power from the fingertips: writing alone and working together in the 2008 candlelight protests
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This 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.
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Sociology
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Demonstrations -- Korea (South) -- 21st century -- Sociological aspects
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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