Constituting and Engaging in Transnational (Media) Activism Locally: The Case of Hong Kong In-media

Abstract

In the last decade or so, concomitant with the spread of the global justice movement, there has been an emergence of transnational media activism—a rapid rise of Internet-based media activisms around the globe, which has posed increasing challenges to the political-economic establishments and media status quo. This paper is a case study of a media activists organisation in Hong Kong, i.e. Hong Kong In-media. Through an analysis of its historical developments, it discusses how local media activism has been situated in the broader landscape of transnational media activism. The connections between the local and transnational media activisms have been manifested in the local media activists’ appropriation of movement ideas and practices from the global exemplars, and in their attempts to mobilise transnational movement resources by forging tangible cooperations with the counterparts elsewhere. The local media activists’ contributions to transnational media activism in particular and transnational activism in general will be discussed.