{"id":674,"date":"2022-04-25T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T01:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/?p=674"},"modified":"2022-04-25T10:03:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T02:03:03","slug":"online-activism-does-not-lead-to-material-social-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/onsc\/674\/online-activism-does-not-lead-to-material-social-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Activism does not lead to material social change"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nDownload PDF\r\nAbstract\r\nSocial media apps such as Twitter are effective media through which to raise awareness of social justice issues, the environmental crisis and the Black Lives Matter movement providing two contemporary examples of online activism. This research paper argues that this raised awareness does not translates into real political change as Twitter et al foster \u2018thin communities\u2019 that are as easily dispersed as they are formed, and create the illusion that awareness equates <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/onsc\/674\/online-activism-does-not-lead-to-material-social-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download PDF Abstract Social media apps such as Twitter are effective media through which to raise awareness of social justice issues, the environmental crisis and the Black Lives Matter movement<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn button-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/onsc\/674\/online-activism-does-not-lead-to-material-social-change\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","crio-premium-page-header-override":null,"crio-premium-page-header-select":"none","crio-premium-page-header-background":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[72,131,130,132,36],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onsc","tag-onlinenetworks","tag-activism","tag-slacktivisim","tag-socialchange","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}