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Organizing Online
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Read "#SOCIALCHANGE" located on pages 474 and 475 of the textbook. Describe the manner in which social media provides a venue for activism. Provide one (1) example of online support for an issue or cause.
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#SocialChange A preeminent form of social activism today is what has been termed “hashtag activism” (Dewey, 2014), essentially the movement to spread awareness online regarding social issues embraced and defined as important by well-known public figures and ordinary people alike. Hashtag activism is conducted on Twitter, an Internet platform actively used by 255 million account holders across the world and passively followed by millions more (Twitter, 2014). According to a study conducted for the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project, in 2013, 18% of online adults had Twitter accounts (a 2% increase from the year before) (Duggan & Smith, 2014). Twitter is not the only online platform used for social activism, but it has played a part in a number of broad public campaigns, such as the effort to capture alleged war criminal Joseph Kony, wanted for crimes of mass murder and rape in Uganda (#Kony2012), and the effort to draw attention to injustice in the killing of Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of the man who shot him, George Zimmerman (#JusticeforTrayvon). In the spring of 2014, a major campaign of hashtag activism was undertaken in response to the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls from a provincial Nigerian boarding school. Outrage over the girls’ abduction by a self-proclaimed radical I.
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Organizing Online
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Read "#SOCIALCHANGE" located on pages 474 and 475 of the
textbook. Describe the manner in which social media provides a
venue for activism. Provide one (1) example of online support
for an issue or cause.
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#SocialChange A preeminent form of social activism today is
what has been termed “hashtag activism” (Dewey, 2014),
essentially the movement to spread awareness online regarding
social issues embraced and defined as important by well-known
public figures and ordinary people alike. Hashtag activism is
conducted on Twitter, an Internet platform actively used by 255
million account holders across the world and passively followed
by millions more (Twitter, 2014). According to a study
conducted for the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project, in
2013, 18% of online adults had Twitter accounts (a 2% increase
from the year before) (Duggan & Smith, 2014). Twitter is not
the only online platform used for social activism, but it has
played a part in a number of broad public campaigns, such as
the effort to capture alleged war criminal Joseph Kony, wanted
for crimes of mass murder and rape in Uganda (#Kony2012),
and the effort to draw attention to injustice in the killing of
Trayvon Martin and the subsequent acquittal of the man who
shot him, George Zimmerman (#JusticeforTrayvon). In the
spring of 2014, a major campaign of hashtag activism was
6. undertaken in response to the kidnapping of more than 200
schoolgirls from a provincial Nigerian boarding school. Outrage
over the girls’ abduction by a self-proclaimed radical Islamic
group called Boko Haram (which means “Western education is a
sin” in the local Hausa language) spread quickly in April and
May of that year from domestic Nigerian activists and the young
women’s aggrieved parents to become a global movement
functioning primarily online through #BringBackOurGirls.
Among the political and cultural luminaries tweeting their
support of the kidnapped girls and demanding their safe return
were First Lady Michelle Obama, British prime minister David
Cameron, media personalities Ellen DeGeneres and Piers
Morgan, young Pakistani activist for women’s and girls’ rights
Malala Yousafzai, and even celebrities like Chris Rock and
Amy Poehler. By the beginning of May, #BringBackOurGirls
had accrued well over 2 million tweets (McGann, 2014). Online
appeals also spurred public protests outside Nigeria, including
demonstrations in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., calling
for the safe return of the kidnapped girls.
Hashtag activism is, arguably, a potentially powerful
technological instrument of social activism. First, it is a means
for raising awareness of issues that might otherwise go
unnoticed in our information-saturated modern world,
particularly if well-known figures involve themselves in
campaigns (as was the case in the #BringBackOurGirls
campaign). Supporters of social media activism point out that
heightened public awareness can put pressure on officials who
are in a position to make or change policies or foster action on
actionable issues (Seay, 2014). Second, hashtag activism has the
potential to draw together concerned individuals and groups
across the globe who might not otherwise have a means for
uniting around a common cause. Such activism is not without its
critics, however. It has been termed “slacktivism” and
7. “armchair activism.” According to a Washington Post article on
this modern phenomenon, “Users are urged to ‘like’ posts and
pages on Facebook, share Twitter and blog posts with everyone
they know, and to create videos or take a picture for Instagram
relating to their cause” (Seay, 2014). “Slacktivism” has been the
subject of recent social scientific research in which it was
defined as the “willingness to perform a relatively costless,
token display of support for a social cause, with an
accompanying lack of willingness to devote significant effort to
meaningful change” (Kristofferson, White, & Peloza, 2014, p.
1149). The researchers examined the question of whether
“slacktivism” is likely to translate into more substantial (more
costly or time-consuming or long-term) engagement with a
cause. Interestingly, they found that those whose initial
“activism” was private rather than public (for instance, writing
a letter to a member of Congress versus “liking” or posting on
Facebook) were more likely to engage deeply in the cause of
interest. Public proclamations of interest were less likely to
translate into meaningful engagement. Online social activism is
likely to be a part of our lives for the foreseeable future, and we
are likely to see hashtag and similar campaigns that seek our
attention to a range of social, political, economic, and
environmental issues. Sociological engagement with this
phenomenon is still in its infancy. What would you like to know
about it? How would you go about researching online social
activism?
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