HOLDING AMERICAN DEMOCRACY TO ACCOUNT: COMBATING BLACK IDENTITY HOMOGENIZATION WITH ‘HASHTAG JACKING’ AND ‘MEME FACTORIES’
It is not up to governments to unilaterally declare themselves ‘liberal democracies.’ Things like armed government soldiers treating supporters of one candidate or another preferentially during an election, for example, can rightly bring such claims into just dispute (Willis, Lynch & Cheeseman, 2017; Iwuoha, Obiora, Obi, Alumona, Ojimba & Obiorji, Read more [...]
ONLINE NETWORKS HAVE ALLOWED SOCIAL CHANGE MOVEMENTS SUCH AS BLM TO ADVANCE AND SPREAD INFORMATION FASTER AND WIDER.
Online Networks have allowed for social change movements to advance and spread news and information very fast. Movements such as Black Lives Matter have been able to spread news faster and create awareness for the current events and injustices occurring in our world (Auxer, 2020). Black Lives Matter is a decentralised political and social movement that Read more [...]