Working to Decrease World Suck: Digital Cultures and Online Advocacy
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Location
CSU 253
Start Date
10-1-2021
End Date
10-1-2021
Description
K-pop fans flooded hashtags on Twitter to drown out racist or homophobic tweets, TikTok teens registered for tickets to a Trump rally so seats would be empty, Reddit users crash Texas abortion reporting website. A new way of engaging in political activism has emerged thanks to digital communities, and yet there is a tendency to reject these communities as silly and superfluous merely because they are online. I am interested in exploring how the digital communities may be deployed politically, how practices within these communities produce new civic practices, and how these new practices might strengthen or weaken our democracy.
Working to Decrease World Suck: Digital Cultures and Online Advocacy
CSU 253
K-pop fans flooded hashtags on Twitter to drown out racist or homophobic tweets, TikTok teens registered for tickets to a Trump rally so seats would be empty, Reddit users crash Texas abortion reporting website. A new way of engaging in political activism has emerged thanks to digital communities, and yet there is a tendency to reject these communities as silly and superfluous merely because they are online. I am interested in exploring how the digital communities may be deployed politically, how practices within these communities produce new civic practices, and how these new practices might strengthen or weaken our democracy.
