A Systematic Literature Review of Pop Activism in Chinese Visual Culture

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10.2991/assehr.k.220105.042How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pop Art; Chinese Cyberpolitics; Visual Culture

Abstract

The objective of this research was to examine development and effects of Pop Activism in China ranging from dadaism to online expression. To achieve this objective, this paper were divided to three aspects to analyze Pop Activism, the development of Pop Art in China, the communication characteristics of Pop Activism and how Pop Activism affecting Chinese cyberpolitics. With the development of technology, the way of video-making and image-making have became easier than before that every netizen can produce memes, micro-images and auto-tuned remix videos by themselves. Accordingly, online expression gradually became a crucial part of visual culture in China. These kind of ways of expression are deeply engage in Chinese cyberpolitics, and it is a mean of moblization. The first part of this essay introduced the development of popart in China and how western art movement, such as Dadaism and Pop Art, affecting chinese art movement. The second part discussed the communicaiton characteristics of Pop Activism, deconstructing the positions of other communities and maintaining the emotional connection within the communities. The third part explain the relationship between “cyber-nationalism” and Pop Activism.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chenyi Wu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/17
TI  - A Systematic Literature Review of Pop Activism in Chinese Visual Culture
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 219
EP  - 224
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.042
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.042
ID  - Wu2022
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