NEW MEDIA, ACTIVISM, AND DEVELOPMENT.
NEW MEDIA, ACTIVISM, AND DEVELOPMENT.
From the ‘Arab Spring’ to #blacklivesmatter contemporary activism is firmly embedded in digital tools, Internet culture and hybrid engagements between traditional protest and viral attention. This theme takes a look at activism happening in and through the new media. From ‘first generation’ digital activism, including free software projects, copyright debates or citizen journalism, more comprehensive research is emerging from inside new social movements challenging initial assumptions of digital revolutions and the power of ‘the Internet’ in an era of ‘platform capitalism’.
An important question to keep in mind for this theme is how these debates are related to, challenged, absorbed or ignored in the context of international development and new media activism in the ‘Global South’ and what alternative narratives, tools and discourses are emerging globally.
IMPORTANT: This essay should focus on the digital divide in the global north vs. global south, and the gender inequality that exists on the internet.
10 sources to be used are included as attachments. Other academic sources may be used in the paper. APA style.
NEW MEDIA, ACTIVISM, AND DEVELOPMENT.
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