Evidentiary video and “Professional Vision” in the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement

Bibliographic Data

ID6084497
AuthorsRodney H Jones (0000-0002-9426-727X), Neville Chi Hang Li (0000-0001-5090-2158)
Year2016
Volume15
Issue5
Pages567-588
Publication date2016-12-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jlp.15.5.04jon
OpenAlexW2519944143
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited20

The video documentation of police violence against citizens, and the circulation of these videos over mainstream and social media, has played an important part in many contemporary social movements, from the Black Lives Matter Movement in the U.S. to the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Such videos serve as both evidence of police abuses and discursive artefacts around which viewers build bodies of shared knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about events through engaging in exercises of “collective seeing”. This article analyses the way a video of police officers beating a handcuffed protester, which became an important symbol of the excessive use of force by police during the Occupy Hong Kong protests, was interpreted by different communities, including journalists, protesters, anti-protest groups, and law enforcement officials, and how these collective acts of interpretation served as a means for members of these communities to display group membership and reinforce group norms and ideological values

Aesthetics · Art · Criminology · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy · Law enforcement · Mainstream · Media studies · Movement (music · Police brutality · Political science · Politics · Social media · Social movement · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Media Studies and Communication · Law

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