dc.contributor |
Universitat Ramon Llull. Facultat de Comunicació i Relacions Internacionals Blanquerna |
dc.contributor.author |
Tarrats Castillo, Berta |
dc.date.accessioned |
2022-08-30T11:29:55Z |
dc.date.available |
2022-08-30T11:29:55Z |
dc.date.issued |
2022 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2072/522676 |
dc.description |
TFG del Grau en Relacions Internacionals tutoritzat per Umut Özkırımlı |
dc.format.extent |
93 p. |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.rights |
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dc.rights |
© L'autor/a |
dc.source |
RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya) |
dc.subject.other |
Relacions Internacionals |
dc.subject.other |
TFG |
dc.subject.other |
Moviments socials |
dc.subject.other |
Sud-est Asiàtic |
dc.subject.other |
Xarxes socials |
dc.title |
#MilkTeaAlliance, more than spectators of disaster. The new alter-globalization movement? |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis |
dc.embargo.terms |
cap |
dc.rights.accessLevel |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.description.abstract |
The COVID-19 outbreak has been instrumentalized as a catalyst for
further autocratization, especially in South and Southeast Asia. The
#MilkTeaAlliance, a Pan-Asian solidarity networked social movement, could be
the movement that challenges effectively and productively this growing trend.
The objective of this research is to evaluate if the hastagh #MilkTeaAlliance has
the potential to become the next alter-globalization movement.
To that end, this dissertation adopts a dual approach. First, a theoretical
parallel is drawn between #MilkTeaAlliance and alter-globalization through
Castells’ conceptualization of networked social movements. Second, over
two-hundred tweets in English have been collected from March 2020 to March
2022. These tweets are categorized by the co-occurrence of words and the visual
content to investigate if Twitter is a space of denunciation and/or a space of
prefiguration.
The thesis concludes that #MilkTeaAlliance has the potential to become a
catalyst for a larger movement, but it is not yet the next alter-globalization.
Although it has many similarities to the alter-globalization movement, this
conclusion is based on three observations: (a) Twitter is a space of denunciation
rather than a space of prefiguration, (b) Southeast Asian users are more engaged
than those from outside the region, and (c) the movement has a weak shared
framework. |