This is my final post (for a while anyway). I’d like to thank my blog co-creators, Kate, Mercy and Lauren for being wonderful partners in crime. Creating a blog around digital activism has opened countless avenues of enquiry for future research and taught me a lot about the blogging practice. …
Dear readers, We have now come to the end of this assignment, which means that you won’t be seeing any new posts here in the future. We hope that you’ve enjoyed our posts exploring the intersection of activism, digital technology and development. For us it has been a fascinating and …
Silas Siakor’s life as a campaigner on environmental issues and human rights in Liberia began in the year 2000 during Charles Taylor’s regime. As staff member of SAMFU (Save My Future) Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) investigating illegal activities in Liberia’s timber industry, Siakor was responsible for the organisation’s newsletter …
While researching a paper on social movements last year, I learned about an activist social media platform called “Chalk Back” that captured my interest. Through the simple act of recording utterances of real-life street harassment in colorful chalk on the sidewalks where they occur in cities around the world …
On 21 September 2020, We See You, a ‘POC feminist queer collective of artists and activists’ announced their occupation of a mansion in Camps Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. After renting the home through Airbnb, the collective did not depart on their check-out date and began an approximately two-week-long occupation. …
When I was reading Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep Tukekci I really enjoyed how wove in conversations that she has had with activists all around the world. Inspired by this approach and keen to hear how some of the theories and issues we’ve been discussing in an academic context …
One man’s self immolation due to abuse by regime forces was the deciding factor that led to a series of protests that culminated in an uprising that eventually led to the flight and removal of a country’s autocratic leaders. This is a simplistic summary of Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution in 2010/2011. …
In this post, I’ll be looking at the power of memes in digital activism. I’ll dive into their significance as a vehicle for political expression and participation, or in the parlance of Stuart Hall (the godfather of cultural studies) how memes are re-represented or re-coded in different cultural contexts, and …
In the first part of this post, I discussed how Martin Luther took advantage of the communication technology of his time, the printing press, to advance his cause in the Reformation era. This was during a time when early critics within the church did not see any benefit in using …
My professional experience is very much in the formal development sector, and if you’ve ever been part of this world, you’ll know that results, monitoring and evaluation, and KPIs are part of the daily work. In an effort to know which solutions really work, and to be accountable to donors, …
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