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Monthly Archives: February 2014
Broken Democracy: Why I Should Pay Closer Attention to Edward Snowden
You are someone who is smart enough, idealistic enough, bold enough to know that living with yourself in a system of utter corruption would destroy that self as an ideal, as something worth being. Doing what you’ve done, on the … Continue reading
Posted in Wild Card
Tagged democracy, Edward Snowden, information, NSA, Rebecca Solnit, surveillance, The Guardian, US Army
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Social Media & Volunteerism
Mallory Mitchell, a senior marketing student at the University of Montevallo, has done undergraduate research related to our topic at hand: activism and social media. As a part of the McNair Scholars Program, Mallory worked with Dr. Michele Bunn to … Continue reading
Pros and Cons of Social Media Advocacy
Like the articles have shown, and most of us have stated in our posts, there are pros and cons to advocating for a cause over social media. These social media outlets have become a way for connecting and communicating that … Continue reading
Posted in Discussion
Tagged connecting, information, sharing, social media, tweetsgiving, Twitter
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Social Media Publicizes
During previous decades people only had each other to relay information, which means that only the people you knew had information about the topic. During the fight for African American rights whenever there was a sit in, you would know … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged FORCE, NotYourAsianSidekick, renisha mcbride, social media, trayvon martin, Victoria Secret
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The Day the Feminist Blogosphere Imploded: A Links Roundup
Malcolm Gladwell’s piece on “Why the Revolution will not be Tweeted” makes me mad. There are a lot of issues, but the most troubling for me was his insistence that activist movements have to be hierarchically organized to be successful. … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, blogosphere, feminism, inequality, power, social media, Twitter
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Interview with Feminist Extraordinaire: Tanya Hoang
I chose to interview Tanya Hoang as she is both a self-identified feminist and an Asian American woman. I thought it would be pertinent to get her perspective on some of the issues we read about this week. What are … Continue reading
Posted in Discussion, Q & A
Tagged Asian American stereotypes, feminism, gender stereotypes, Montevallo, online movements, social media, Tanya Hoang, UM
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Twitter, Feminism, and Political Activism
It’s too bad we had a snowpocalypse last week. I was looking forward to discussing Malcom Gladwell and the question of Twitter (or social media more broadly) and activism. It’s been a few years since that piece was published in … Continue reading
The Blogosphere Awaits!
The Snowpocalypse cancelled our week on Social Media and Political Activism, but we still need to get into those blogospheres! The Blogosphere Creation might seem a little hard to put your finger on, but, well, that’s because blogospheres are multifaceted … Continue reading