Mobile phones, social ties, and collective action mobilization in China
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Mobile phones, social ties, and collective action mobilization in China. / Liu, Jun.
I: Acta Sociologica, Bind 60, Nr. 3, 2017, s. 213–227.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Mobile phones, social ties, and collective action mobilization in China
AU - Liu, Jun
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - To provide a better understanding of mobile phones as a recruitment tool in collective actions, this study explores the use of mobile phones for mobilizing protest in China. Using in-depth interviews and investigating four cases in which Chinese people employed mobile devices to recruit participants for protests, this study observes that mobile communication in China embodies guanxi, the indigenous social tie in Chinese society that introduces reciprocity as an influential facilitator of collective actions. The embedment of reciprocity facilitates the proliferation of mobilizing calls, legitimizes mobilizing appeals, generates obligations and consolidates solidarity for collective actions. The study concludes with a consideration of the relevance of mobile phones for the embedment of reciprocity in social ties in the mobilization of collective action in authoritarian regimes such as China.
AB - To provide a better understanding of mobile phones as a recruitment tool in collective actions, this study explores the use of mobile phones for mobilizing protest in China. Using in-depth interviews and investigating four cases in which Chinese people employed mobile devices to recruit participants for protests, this study observes that mobile communication in China embodies guanxi, the indigenous social tie in Chinese society that introduces reciprocity as an influential facilitator of collective actions. The embedment of reciprocity facilitates the proliferation of mobilizing calls, legitimizes mobilizing appeals, generates obligations and consolidates solidarity for collective actions. The study concludes with a consideration of the relevance of mobile phones for the embedment of reciprocity in social ties in the mobilization of collective action in authoritarian regimes such as China.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - mobile communication
KW - collective action mobilization
KW - social tie
KW - reciprocity
KW - China
KW - guanxi
U2 - 10.1177/0001699316660596
DO - 10.1177/0001699316660596
M3 - Journal article
VL - 60
SP - 213
EP - 227
JO - Acta Sociologica
JF - Acta Sociologica
SN - 0001-6993
IS - 3
ER -
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