Black Lives Matter isn’t the first social movement to engage an international audience, create political and public engagement by using social media. Both the Fridays for Future movement (with Greta Thunberg in the lead), the Arabic Spring and #IWillGoOut have led the way in showing how social media can engage …
With my latest post, I explored the Black Lives Matter movement and its roots, aims, and hashtag. At the end of the post, I provided a list of articles to further read about the movement, structural racism, and a list of what you can do to help the cause. The …
You may have read my How to be a Clicktivist post, you ought to know that being a White Saviour is a level up in the Development Game. Unlike Clicktivism, White Saviourism is not a new phenomenon (colonialism, anyone?). Sure, these days White Saviours don’t commit genocides, enslave people, and …
With the dramatic increase in social media shares, demonstrations around the world and attention in international media, I suppose no one has missed the Black Lives Matter movement. The movement grew immensely during the first half of 2020 after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, two Americans killed …
