Milan Ismangil
Biographic Data
| ID | 1264030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Milan Ismangil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Milan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ismangil |
| SIGNATURE | ISMANGIL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Hong Kong will never die as long as there are bookstores”
Independent bookstores in Hong Kong have gained a vital role in sustaining a sense of temporary community since the 2019 Anti-ELAB protests, after which many forms of activism have become almost impossible. While the social role of independent bookstores within communities has been widely discussed, this study foregrounds their civic significance by examining how, in a non-Western hybrid regime, bookstores both navigate and enable civic life unde…
The Lingering Banners of Hong Kong ‘National Day’
What remains of a national day after it has passed? Weeks after it has ended banners celebrating China's ‘birthday’ on October first can still be seen all over Hong Kong. As government and pro‐China organizations hang up banners and flags all around Hong Kong, celebrating the birthday of the nation. These flags remind the people in Hong Kong that they are part of China, despite some thinking otherwise. I argue that these banners serve to 1. Remin…
The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China
In The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China, Qing Cao presents a fresh perspective on the intellectual foundation of modern China through an analysis of the epic debate between two influential periodicals in 1905–7. Through corpus-based discourse analysis of the debate, Cao examines the emergence, promotion, and internal tensions of key concepts such as “people,” “state,” and “revolution” in late Qing society. This analysis highli…
Assessing the Impact of Global Attention on Subreddit Community Practices
What happens to internet communities after a global media event puts them in the public spotlight? Does the flood of new members change a given community's practices, structures, and discussions? Do things go back to normal? These questions lie at the heart of our research project, which examines how a local subcommunity on the popular website Reddit changed as its matter of focus became a global discussion subject. Specifically, this study analy…
Hong Kong's Networked Agitprop
Hong Kong's protest movements have created a repertoire of symbolism in artworks and artefacts that make statements about the political status of the city. This article analyses the protest art that emerged during the 2019 anti-extradition protests. We explore how actors produced a sense of “Hong Kong-ness” and distributed political meanings through networked agitprop: a form of strategic communication that links people and ideas together in both…
If I’m not Streaming, I’m not Earning
Purpose This article explores how platforms reorganize our sense of everyday life. The platformization of everyday life means a changing relation to what we do in our daily lives, not only in China, but in every country in which digital platforms are becoming more relevant by the day. Using TikTok in China as our point of departure, we discuss the role of platform time and the abstracted audience. Design/methodology/approach This study is a colla…
YouTube as Praxis? On BreadTube and the Digital Propagation of Socialist Thought
In this paper we discuss the rise of BreadTube and what it means for the spread and normalization of socialist ideas online. We aim to focus on four major YouTube content creators – Contrapoints, Philosophy Tube, Shaun, and Hbomberguy – to outline how they construct their videos to entertain, inform, as well as debunk both alt-right and (economically) liberal talking points, helping to prevent potential radicalization of a mostly young audience w…
Protests in Hong Kong during the Covid-19 pandemic
Subversive Nationalism through Memes
China is home to the world's largest audience for e‐sports, or competitive videogames. While competitive videogames have become popular within a borderless, digital environment, the e‐sports fan base has a decidedly nationalist element to it. This article argues that new forms of digital nationalism are part and parcel of normal discourse within the Chinese competitive videogames environment. Through a case study of one specific competitive video…
(Re)creating the Nation Online
In August 2016, Wings Gaming won the sixth edition of the International, a tournament for the videogame Dota 2. Wings Gaming, a team consisting of five Chinese players, was praised for bringing honour to China. This article explores various ways in which this Chinese Dota 2 community frames its fandom using nationalistic rhetoric. Teams identified as Chinese represent the country, honouring or disappointing the nation when they square off in tour…
Protests in Hong Kong during the Covid-19 pandemic
Hong Kong's Networked Agitprop
Hong Kong's protest movements have created a repertoire of symbolism in artworks and artefacts that make statements about the political status of the city. This article analyses the protest art that emerged during the 2019 anti-extradition protests. We explore how actors produced a sense of “Hong Kong-ness” and distributed political meanings through networked agitprop: a form of strategic communication that links people and ideas together in both…
Subversive Nationalism through Memes
China is home to the world's largest audience for e‐sports, or competitive videogames. While competitive videogames have become popular within a borderless, digital environment, the e‐sports fan base has a decidedly nationalist element to it. This article argues that new forms of digital nationalism are part and parcel of normal discourse within the Chinese competitive videogames environment. Through a case study of one specific competitive video…
(Re)creating the Nation Online
In August 2016, Wings Gaming won the sixth edition of the International, a tournament for the videogame Dota 2. Wings Gaming, a team consisting of five Chinese players, was praised for bringing honour to China. This article explores various ways in which this Chinese Dota 2 community frames its fandom using nationalistic rhetoric. Teams identified as Chinese represent the country, honouring or disappointing the nation when they square off in tour…
Subversive Nationalism through Memes
China is home to the world's largest audience for e‐sports, or competitive videogames. While competitive videogames have become popular within a borderless, digital environment, the e‐sports fan base has a decidedly nationalist element to it. This article argues that new forms of digital nationalism are part and parcel of normal discourse within the Chinese competitive videogames environment. Through a case study of one specific competitive video…
YouTube as Praxis? On BreadTube and the Digital Propagation of Socialist Thought
In this paper we discuss the rise of BreadTube and what it means for the spread and normalization of socialist ideas online. We aim to focus on four major YouTube content creators – Contrapoints, Philosophy Tube, Shaun, and Hbomberguy – to outline how they construct their videos to entertain, inform, as well as debunk both alt-right and (economically) liberal talking points, helping to prevent potential radicalization of a mostly young audience w…
Protests in Hong Kong during the Covid-19 pandemic
If I’m not Streaming, I’m not Earning
Purpose This article explores how platforms reorganize our sense of everyday life. The platformization of everyday life means a changing relation to what we do in our daily lives, not only in China, but in every country in which digital platforms are becoming more relevant by the day. Using TikTok in China as our point of departure, we discuss the role of platform time and the abstracted audience. Design/methodology/approach This study is a colla…
Assessing the Impact of Global Attention on Subreddit Community Practices
What happens to internet communities after a global media event puts them in the public spotlight? Does the flood of new members change a given community's practices, structures, and discussions? Do things go back to normal? These questions lie at the heart of our research project, which examines how a local subcommunity on the popular website Reddit changed as its matter of focus became a global discussion subject. Specifically, this study analy…
Hong Kong's Networked Agitprop
Hong Kong's protest movements have created a repertoire of symbolism in artworks and artefacts that make statements about the political status of the city. This article analyses the protest art that emerged during the 2019 anti-extradition protests. We explore how actors produced a sense of “Hong Kong-ness” and distributed political meanings through networked agitprop: a form of strategic communication that links people and ideas together in both…
The Lingering Banners of Hong Kong ‘National Day’
What remains of a national day after it has passed? Weeks after it has ended banners celebrating China's ‘birthday’ on October first can still be seen all over Hong Kong. As government and pro‐China organizations hang up banners and flags all around Hong Kong, celebrating the birthday of the nation. These flags remind the people in Hong Kong that they are part of China, despite some thinking otherwise. I argue that these banners serve to 1. Remin…
The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China
In The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China, Qing Cao presents a fresh perspective on the intellectual foundation of modern China through an analysis of the epic debate between two influential periodicals in 1905–7. Through corpus-based discourse analysis of the debate, Cao examines the emergence, promotion, and internal tensions of key concepts such as “people,” “state,” and “revolution” in late Qing society. This analysis highli…
“Hong Kong will never die as long as there are bookstores”
Independent bookstores in Hong Kong have gained a vital role in sustaining a sense of temporary community since the 2019 Anti-ELAB protests, after which many forms of activism have become almost impossible. While the social role of independent bookstores within communities has been widely discussed, this study foregrounds their civic significance by examining how, in a non-Western hybrid regime, bookstores both navigate and enable civic life unde…
Political science (8 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · China (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)