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. …
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 …
On Friday 24 September 2021, at Gustav Adolfs Torg, a cobbled square in the centre of Gothenburg used as a meeting point for demonstrations, I stood amongst a crowd of people of all ages, with dance beats blaring from a large speaker and a sea of placards aloft in the …
