What really matters in creating mass mobilization, classical organization or new social media?a comparative case study of the mass mobilization process in France and South Korea

• Autores: Jeong-Im Hyun
• Localización: From social to political. New forms of mobilization and democratization: Conference proceedings / Benjamín Tejerina Montaña (ed. lit.), Ignacia Perugorría (ed. lit.), 2013, ISBN 978-84-9860-595-2, págs. 268-280
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper explores why people adopt different processes to create (or participate in) mass mobilizations, using the 2006 anti-CPE ('Contract Premier Embauche', or first working contract) movement in France and the 2008 Candlelight movement (mass mo- bilization against American beef imports) in South Korea as cases. In France, initiators and participants followed the 'ready-made' way: Left-wing organizations and persons more or less led the whole process of mass mobilizations. By comparison in South Ko- rea, initiators came from 'nowhere': They were middle school and high school students without any political affiliation or organization; among the participants were ordinary adults 'tainted' by the left wing political line, civil society organization members, and 'interested' politicians. This paper examines factors that account for this difference? The key finding of this study shows that the levels of demarcation of political lines in people's everyday life, such as syndicalism, explain this difference. Strong establish- ment of a political line in people's everyday life brought less 'new actors' into the French movement, creating 'less surprise') but a solid mobilization where a classi- cal organization is still important. In South Korea, the less-established political line in people's everyday life brought more 'new actors' into the mass mobilization, eventually creating 'more surprise' but a 'frivolous' mobilization where new social media were more important. The origin of this difference came from differences in the nature of democracy of the two societies.