“We Are All Shinji”:? The Influence of Anime and Manga on Digital Art in the Milk Tea Alliance Protests

The changing nature of protest tactics in Asian social movements between 2019 and 2021. Drawing on Bennet and Segerberg’s (2012) ‘connective social movement’, which theorises that social movements are no longer ‘collective’ by using older models of mobilization like unions or community groups, but rather through mobile networked individuals acting on their own impetus The movements of Hong Kong, Thailand and Myanmar were leaderless and highly mobile, the occupation of territory didn’t happen within squares, highways and urban streets, but in the networked spaces of the internet There was a reliance on visual media to carry the messaging of the movements, this extends scholar Nicole Doerr’s work on Movement Visuals.