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The internet: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?

by Therese Sjödin on October 24, 2013

in Activism,Social Movements

Our fellow students in the other group focusing on social media, Making Sense of Social Media , put up this video yesterday that I would like to share here as well as it connects to several points we have discussed.

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Why not exclusion in social media

by Therese Sjödin on October 21, 2013

in Activism,Social Movements

I want to share this interesting clip of Evgeny Morozov with you, connecting to what I have been discussing here regarding exclusion and expertise in social media for development as well as the debate on “slacktivism” brought up by Peppi.

Tagged as: activism, armchair advocate, expertise, slacktivism, social media

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Armchair advocates and social media

by Peppi-Emilia Airike on October 14, 2013

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In today’s 21st century world, media audiences are more active than in the earlier decades, and they are now also seen as media users, participants and consumers (Lievrouw, 2011; Mandiberg, 2012). The strict line between media producers and consumers has indeed become blurred (Mandiberg, 2012). The new media’s ‘bottow-up’ landscape has created new possibilities for […]

Tagged as: activism, armchair advocate, Facebook, social media, Twitter

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