Talk:Usage of social media in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests

Article: Usage of Social Media in the 2019-2020 Hong Kong Protests The edits and addition are really great. The information is very thorough yet concise and explains the usage of social media platforms to support the movement. Great job implementing an informative and neutral tone to the addition. For the Facebook section, I wonder if it would be possible to add the filter used on Facebook so that you can add the graphic. it was a really great symbol that would provide a graphical context to the reader. The Twitter section confused me a little because the information provided is very different than the one previously given in the Facebook section. It seems that on Facebook you focused entirely on how the platform was used internationally as a tool, and provided very high-level information. As for the Twitter section, it was used exclusively to provide very specific instances on how the platform was used. It is probably because you can easily pinpoint the significant events on Twitter and attribute them to someone and their consequences. It might be good to start with the overall international influence that Twitter had as a platform and then lead the reader to the specific examples. Those were just the things that I would suggest You provided really great edits and additions and excellent examples! EstabanMiranda (talk)

Peer Review

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Lead The lead dives right into the bulk of the article, and discussing social media. It needs a little more context about the protests, and why social media was an essential form of communication/how it drove the protests. This can also be done in a separate section. Instead the lead could just start out discussing how social media was essential communication during the protests, and how protestors used a diverse array of sites for different functions.

Content The content here was incredibly informative. The one thing that stood out to me however, is that the "Twitter" subsection dove right into controversy, and not what its actual affordance was in this case. It would be interesting to add a section on whether the government tried to censor any of the media or spread false information (just guessing examples, not actually sure), or adding a section on previous censorship in the government.

Tone and Balance The tone was neutral, and the information read like an encyclopedia. The context provided for each form of social media aided in this heavily, and there was no bias towards the protestors.

Sources and References I would add extra sources for the subsections on "Weibo," "Airdrop," and "Telegram." Since two of these are more local sites, readers not familiar with the culture need more resources to read about these sites. As for airdrop, this is a more unique "social media" per se, and having more sources would be helpful to strengthen the credibility of it being a tool in the protests. Looking at the sources themselves, they all seem informative and reliable.

Organization I find no flaw in the structure of this article; it was a concise and clear way to structure the information and break down for the reader how each form of media contributed to the protests differently, and what their uses were.

Images and Media With this subject, there appears to not be a lot of media to explain things. However, you could include pictures and examples of posters that were airdropped, or the facebook filter that was used.

For New Articles Only The article appears to meet the Wikipedia Notability requirements, and the sources seem lengthy for the subject matter (ie. sufficient). There could be more in addition to the ones they have, as I mentioned above. The pattern is similar to other articles, and is organized with the proper headings. It should be added as a link to an article about the Hong Kong Protests, while also including a link to the overall long article.

Overall impressions This article was concise, yet incredibly informative and beautifully structured. The structure of some of the information about twitter needs to be reorganized, and more sources should be added for other sites. However, the rest of it flowed really well and described social media in the protest to a satisfactory degree. Millyphilip (talk) 06:19, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

Responding to Peer Reviews

To EstabanMiranda: Thank you for your review. We especially will revise how we did the Twitter section to first talk about overall influence and then dive into examples. As you said, this will cause the Twitter section to be consistent with the Facebook section. Furthermore, we will try to look for a graphic regarding the Facebook filter as well.

To Millyphilip: Many thanks to you for your thorough review. I especially like how you formatted your review; for us, it is super helpful to see which parts of our article have weaknesses that we can address. In the lead section, we plan to link to the general Wiki page about the Hong Kong Protests so that readers can get more context about the events. We want to avoid duplication of information, so we think this is the best strategy.

Regarding Twitter, the Chinese government did not really censor the platform as the platform is based in the US and was not primarily used by HK citizens. We will definitely keep in mind that we should first address affordances offered by the platform before diving into the controversies on the platform.

We will definitely search for more and better sources! Thanks for the reminder.

We are glad that our quality is of a "satisfactory degree." Hopefully, after addressing your comments, we will improve even more! Jerrysong1324 (talk) 21:46, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

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Post Peer Review Editing (2021)

Hello everyone,

Thanks starting this Wikipedia Article. It's super informative. I'm new to this article and I'd like to offer some help in lengthening it and giving it more perspectives. I've read the reviews and there are a few things that I want to comment about:

For the lead, I've added a few lines about why social media is important in this movement and how it has facilitated the movement. As news article online barely talked about this, I've added scholarly commentaries as a result, and take note that there should be more edits forthcoming.

I found the content rather descriptive and factual apart from the Twitter part which mentioned the controversy directly. As a result, I'll try to add more information about the controversies for various social media platforms. Also, I'll add in scholarly commentaries to proof why social media is influential in driving the protests and people attend the protests as self-joiners. At the time of writing, the government has already banned the use of several Telegram groups (eg those which were used to share Police's personal information).

As for graphical representation, I'll also try to add some Facebook Filters of the graphics which represented the protests and were uploaded to FB (eg. the yellow ribbon image that people used as profile pictures). Will also try to find some graphics which were circulated across social media platforms. I believe I do have several.

Thanks and let's keep on working on this article.

BubblesOscar (talk) 08:16, 8 July 2021 (UTC)