Archives: social movement

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

From Slacktivism Back to Activism: How Social Media is Making A Comeback

by: Carley Hutchinson Have you ever tweeted about #MeToo? Maybe you’ve shared a friend’s post about Black Lives Matter? If you have, congratulations - you’re an activist.But, some naysayers like Mark Drumbl would like to call you a slacktivist (Drumbl, 2012). And although minimal effort activism is still alive and well, it is hard... More

Sunday, March 28, 2021

[Millennials’ Voices] I Paid a Bribe: How a crowdsourcing digital campaign took on corruption

    Jami E McElrea India is one of the fastest growing economies, yet corruption is rampant. More than 50% of Indians have bribed government officials in 2019. In 2010 transparency international ranked India 87th out of 178 countries. Corruption has a huge economic and social cost in India and has created a system... More

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Podcast: A Casual Roadside Abduction and the Federal Occupation of Portland

Over the past two months, demonstrations have gripped the streets of Portland in outrage over police brutality and the killing of George Floyd. The demonstrations have intensified after federal law enforcement officers were dispatched to halt the protests. Sid Boegman in this podcast looks at state violncee against the protestors in Portland and... More

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

A Mother’s Biggest Fear

By: Kathy Dobson Tori Almond recently had a critically important conversation with her three young sons, a conversation that parents of white children will never have to have. Tori talked to her boys about how to avoid getting killed by the police just because of their skin colour. “My biggest fear is that I... More

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Roots, Routes, and Routers

The summer 2018 issue of the Journalism & Communication Monographs series is dedicated to Merlyna Lim’s work on media and social movements. In a monograph titled Roots, Routes, and Routers: Communications and Media of Contemporary Social Movements, Lim offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the complexity of communications and media as they... More

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