Ep 49 | Sophie Ping-Ya Hsu on Taiwan Voice episode artwork

EPISODE · Sep 1, 2014 · 11 MIN

Ep 49 | Sophie Ping-Ya Hsu on Taiwan Voice

from Talking Taiwan · host Felicia Lin

A note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin: Around the time of the Sunflower Movement in 2014, which was a protest in response to Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou attempting to force passage of the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (a trade pact between Taiwan and China), the Taiwan Voice Facebook page quickly became a major source of news about the movement. Students and activists occupied Taiwan's Legislative Yuan (Taiwan's parliament) from March 18-April 10, 2014. Sophie Ping-Ya Hsu spoke about how the Taiwan Voice Facebook page got started, her involvement in it and its impact.     Here's a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode: ·       How the Taiwan Voice Facebook page got started ·       How Taiwan Voice started in part to support the students who occupied the Legislative Yuan on March 18, 2014 ·       Sophie's background and connection to Taiwan ·       How Sophie got involved in the Taiwan Voice and met the others in the group ·       How the Taiwan Voice Facebook page was getting a thousand likes per day ·       Sophie's contribution to running the Taiwan Voice Facebook page was as an editor, she scanned through Chinese-language social media posts for information and news ideas, to coordinate with English translators and to post to the Taiwan Voice Facebook page ·       Sophie recruited people to help run the Taiwan Voice Facebook page ·       The core group that started Taiwan Voice Facebook were 10-15 individuals ·       Initially news and information related to social justice issues were posted to the Facebook page without any filtering ·       How Taiwan Voice made an impact in creating awareness about Taiwan over social media ·       How Taiwan Voice helped to gather momentum from abroad for the Sunflower Movement ·       How Taiwan Voice was a quick source of news about Taiwan   Related Links:   Taiwan Voice Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TaiwanVoice   Sunflower Movement: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_Student_Movement   Legislative Yuan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_Yuan   Ma Ying-jeou: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Ying-jeou

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