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 …
Keywords: Greta Thunberg, climate change, activism, protest, digitalization, climate strikes, Fridays For Future. School strike week 88.Today we had planned a global climate strike with millions taking part. But in an emergency you have to adapt and change your behaviour.The climate crisis is still ongoing and we must fight every …
Keywords: Street art, social justice, silent activism, Black Lives Matter, awareness, George Floyd, keyboard warriors. How do we generate awareness about social injustice that lasts and that everyone can relate to or understand? By including art that mediates social justice into the discussion, in combination with dissemination in the media, …
In our latest post, Ellinor already touched upon the topic of digital activism and its effectiveness. Today, I will further dive into this topic and discuss the effects of online activism on activism – also within the context of the Black Lives Matter movement. As Poell and van Dijck (2018) …
In my first blog post, I will dig deeper into the fact that digital activism and online protests have replaced many of the “street protests”. I will also discuss how people have found various ways to spread messages and important information. I will draw on an academic article and apply …
Keywords: Global pandemic, misinformation, media manipulation, participation, fake news, COVID-19, social media, new media. Word count: 2042 This blog post will explore the spread of misinformation and fake news in media in the light of a global pandemic. I will also discuss the trending topic of media manipulation and …
