“Do you remember Guo Meimei?”: On the Interaction between Online Collective Action Frames and the Cultural Context in China

Volume 9, Issue 1, February 2025     |     PP. 1-26      |     PDF (732 K)    |     Pub. Date: February 18, 2025
DOI: 10.54647/sociology841393    21 Downloads     257 Views  

Author(s)

Mingyue Pang, London College of Communication

Abstract
This article, from the framing perspective, addresses the interaction between online collective actions and their cultural contexts by tracing the connection between two online collective actions regarding the Red Cross Society of China. One online collective action’s diagnostic frame could turn into a netizens’ collective cognitive frame about a particular object over a long period, forming the cultural change for later actions. This cognitive frame affects how participants attribute the diagnostic frame of later online collective actions about the same object. It also helps participants inherit anger from previous collective actions.

Keywords
online collective action in China; framing analysis; culturalist approach; COVID-19; cultural change

Cite this paper
Mingyue Pang, “Do you remember Guo Meimei?”: On the Interaction between Online Collective Action Frames and the Cultural Context in China , SCIREA Journal of Sociology. Volume 9, Issue 1, February 2025 | PP. 1-26. 10.54647/sociology841393

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