Wild hopes: Sourcing the political vocabulary of digital citizenship from the LIHKG forum

IF 1.3 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

International Communication Gazette Pub Date : 2022-04-12 DOI:10.1177/17480485221094123

J. Erni, Yin Zhang

引用次数: 3

Abstract

In the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill resistance movement, Hong Kong netizens used a popular digital platform known as LIHKG (連登) as a communicative center to exchange time-based information, express outrage or solidarity, and assemble decentered actions of agitation. There was an implied sense that LIHKG was facilitating a “wild” mode of politics oriented toward agitation, disturbance, and chaos. This paper examines its “wild politics” and asks: how might we trace the evolution of a complex political vernacular capable of creating a chaotic form of organizing, and what did this vocabulary tell us about the latent meanings, desires, and identity-making of the networked protesters? Utilizing the LDA topic-modelling method, we analyzed a large corpus of discussion threads on LIHKG to develop a customized domain-specific thematic repertoire, and revealed a “language in the wild” as part of a cultural archive that embodied the netizens’ ambivalent hopes.

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狂野的希望：从LIHKG论坛获取数字公民的政治词汇

在2019年反萃取法修订法案抵制运动中，香港网民使用了一个名为LIHKG的流行数字平台(連登) 作为一个交流中心，交流基于时间的信息，表达愤怒或团结，并收集分散的煽动行动。有一种隐含的感觉是，LIHKG正在促进一种以煽动、骚乱和混乱为导向的“狂野”政治模式。本文考察了它的“狂野政治”，并问道：我们如何追踪一种能够创造混乱组织形式的复杂政治方言的演变，以及这些词汇告诉我们网络抗议者的潜在含义、欲望和身份塑造是什么？利用LDA主题建模方法，我们分析了LIHKG上的大量讨论线索，以开发定制的特定领域主题库，并揭示了一种“野生语言”作为文化档案的一部分，它体现了网民矛盾的希望。

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International Communication Gazette COMMUNICATION-

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4.40

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5.30%

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