Digital activism, slacktivism, and (new) media manipulation
Month: <span>November 2020</span>

Month: November 2020

Final Blog Post: Acknowledging the Digital

In the past months, I wrote four blogposts related to new media and development. My blogposts encompassed topics like the Black Lives Matter movement, COVID-19 and censorship, the dehumanizing use of marginalized people on development organizations’ social media and the role of the digital ‘world’ in relation to displaced people …

Fake News, Fake Ads, and Twitter Bots

On my previous post I briefly mentioned the relation between media and climate change deniers. On this post I would like to focus on social media giants (Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) and their handling of misinformation, especially regarding climate. As you might have read on Ellinor’s post, we’re currently in …

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