As such, they argue that the Umbrella Movement is important in the way it sheds light on the rise of digital-media-enabled social movements, the relationship between digital media platforms and legacy media institutions, the power and limitations of such occupation protests and new 'action logics,' and the continual significance of old protest logics of resource mobilization and collective action frames. Here, Lee and Chan analyze how traditional mass media institutions and digital media combined with on-the-ground networks in such a way as to propel citizen participation and the evolution of the movement as a whole. Chan connect the case of the Umbrella Movement to recent theorizations of new social movement formations.
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