- 著者
- Yushuang YANG
- 出版者
- Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University
- 雑誌
- Journal of the Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University (ISSN:24350184)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.5, pp.16, 2023 (Released:2023-11-18)
The use of popular youth culture for the service of political propaganda is not new, but the risk of doing so is unpredictable. During the early COVID-19 pandemic, the virtual idol project launched by the Chinese Communist Party Youth League was immediately appropriated by feminist netizens and evolved into an online protest event that finally cut short the infamous attempt. This article focuses on how collective identity is constructed among the protest’s participants on social media. Previous literature pointed out the power of social media to connect dispersed individuals that promotes social movement participation without previous identity building, while others reaffirmed the continuous importance of the concept. Taking the “Jiang Shanjiao” incident that initially criticized menstruation shame in China as a case study, this article analyzes the slogans applied by participants, which contribute to building feminists’ cognition of the current problems, their moral sense, collective consciousness, and emotion, and highlights that the affordances of social media are instrumental in the process of constructing collective identity in online protests. The article also argues that even though collective identity created on social media protests emerges and disappears in a short period of time, the content of collective identity exemplified in the protest, including women’s experiences, shared emotions toward gender injustice, and solidarity, is steady and gives lasting vigor to feminist movements.
- 著者
- Joanna Luisa Buenaflor OBISPO
- 出版者
- Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University
- 雑誌
- Journal of the Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan University (ISSN:24350184)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.4, pp.69, 2022 (Released:2022-12-17)
Japan’s anime and contemporary Philippine historical realities are intertwined in this study of the Filipino audience’s reception of Voltes V, the mecha anime considered to be the most iconic and favored by older generations of Filipino viewers. By combining survey findings and history methods (e.g., archival research and oral history) with reception studies, the Filipinos’ fascination for this popular series is examined not in the context of Japan’s Occupation of the Philippines, but within the Filipinos’ cultural and socio-political milieu that has encountered this foreign cultural series for over four decades. First-hand testimonies and narrated memories are mainly provided by Filipino Baby Boomers and Generation X respondents who grew up watching Voltes V in its initial broadcasting years and who also lived through the Marcos regime. Results show that: (1) bitter war accounts and memories do not hinder the popularity of anime in the Philippines; (2) the Japanese creators’ intended message may have been appropriated and decoded differently by the active transnational audiences who pluralize meanings and interpretations in line with their personal lives and certain national events; and lastly, (3) memories derived from oral history interviews can serve as invaluable sources for both historiography and audience reception studies.