The Umbrella Movement
The Umbrella Movement, also known as Umbrella Revolution, began in September 2014. After China’s Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, also known as NPCSC, announced its decision on the proposed electoral reform of Hong Kong. NPCSC made it clear that civil nomination is disallowed.
The two student activist groups, Hong Kong Federation of Students and Scholarism, began protesting outside the government headquarters on 22 September 2014 against the NPCSC's decision. In the evening of 26 September, up to 200 demonstrators breached a security barrier and entered the forecourt of the Central Government Complex.
In the small hours, the police carried out arrests and clearances. Later at 8 September, protests escalated as police blocked roads and bridges entering Tim Mei Avenue. Protest leaders urged citizens to come to Admiralty to encircle the police. The heavy-handed policing, including the use of tear gas on peaceful protesters, inspired tens of thousands of citizens to join the protests in Admiralty. It also caused a spill-over to other parts of the city, including Wan Chai, Causeway Bay and Mong Kok, and universities.
This essay is to examine the framing process of the Umbrella Movement.
According to Snow, frames are individual cognitive structures, located "within the black box of mental life" that orient and guide interpretation of individual experience. Frames enable individuals to locate, perceive, identify and label occurrences and selectively punctuate and encode objects, situations, events, experiences and sequences of actions within one's present and past environment
According to the framing theory, whenever we intend to motivate a person or a group of people to join collective actions, frames have to be used to illustrate the social issue and hence construct the consensus.
The idea of framing can be decomposed into three component parts, Snow & Benford refer to these core framing tasks as diagnostic framing, prognostic framing and
The two student activist groups, Hong Kong Federation of Students and Scholarism, began protesting outside the government headquarters on 22 September 2014 against the NPCSC's decision. In the evening of 26 September, up to 200 demonstrators breached a security barrier and entered the forecourt of the Central Government Complex.
In the small hours, the police carried out arrests and clearances. Later at 8 September, protests escalated as police blocked roads and bridges entering Tim Mei Avenue. Protest leaders urged citizens to come to Admiralty to encircle the police. The heavy-handed policing, including the use of tear gas on peaceful protesters, inspired tens of thousands of citizens to join the protests in Admiralty. It also caused a spill-over to other parts of the city, including Wan Chai, Causeway Bay and Mong Kok, and universities.
This essay is to examine the framing process of the Umbrella Movement.
According to Snow, frames are individual cognitive structures, located "within the black box of mental life" that orient and guide interpretation of individual experience. Frames enable individuals to locate, perceive, identify and label occurrences and selectively punctuate and encode objects, situations, events, experiences and sequences of actions within one's present and past environment
According to the framing theory, whenever we intend to motivate a person or a group of people to join collective actions, frames have to be used to illustrate the social issue and hence construct the consensus.
The idea of framing can be decomposed into three component parts, Snow & Benford refer to these core framing tasks as diagnostic framing, prognostic framing and