Examining the Leaderlessness of a Networked Social Movement on Weibo and Douyin

Hairong Qiu; Xiansheng Wang

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Examining the Leaderlessness of a Networked Social Movement on Weibo and Douyin

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Hairong Qiu¹, Xiansheng Wang²^{, *}

¹Nansha College Preparatory Academy, Guangzhou, China

²The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

^*Corresponding author. Email: celticwxs@gmail.com

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Xiansheng Wang

Available Online 24 January 2025.

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Keywords: Networked social movement; leaderlessness; informal leadership; Chinese social media platform
Abstract: From the late 2000s to the 2010s, researchers have focused on the formation of networked social movements, which are built on existing social and organizational connections through the use of networked media technologies. The key difference between conventional social movements and networked social movements is the shift from ‘collective action’ to ‘connective action’. In this paper, regarding the recent social issue that a PhD. student complaints her supervisor for his sexual harassment behaviors. The author observed the creation of many hashtags or ‘chaohua’ (topics) on two popular social media platforms, Weibo and Douyin which received thousands of millions of views and accelerated the progress of ‘online-to-offline social movement’. Author intends to examine the formation and evolution of (opinion) leadership on Weibo and Douyin by examining the how social influence was distributed regard to different platforms, and exploring whether inequality in social influence was stable.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of 2024 6th International Conference on Economic Management and Cultural Industry (ICEMCI 2024)
Series: Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date: 24 January 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6463-642-0
ISSN: 2352-5428
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6463-642-0_18 How to use a DOI?
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