{"id":3519,"date":"2024-04-21T10:46:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T02:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:33:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T06:33:04","slug":"social-media-activism-is-not-a-comprehensive-tool-for-political-organizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/onsc\/3519\/social-media-activism-is-not-a-comprehensive-tool-for-political-organizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media activism is not a comprehensive tool for political organizing"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn April 2014 news broke that 276 schoolgirls had been kidnapped from Chibok, Nigeria, by the terrorist group Boko Haram (Omeni, 2017). The hashtag #BringBackOurGirls went viral across major social media platforms (Parkinson, 2021). Millions of people online demanded action be taken to ensure the girl\u2019s safe return. Whilst the campaign was successful in urging global leaders to pledge their support to Nigeria (Stewart, 2014), the effort to rescue all the girls was prolonged and complex. <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/onsc\/3519\/social-media-activism-is-not-a-comprehensive-tool-for-political-organizing\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2014 news broke that 276 schoolgirls had been kidnapped from Chibok, Nigeria, by the terrorist group Boko Haram (Omeni, 2017). The hashtag #BringBackOurGirls went viral across major social media platforms (Parkinson, 2021). Millions of people online demanded action be taken to ensure the girl\u2019s safe return. Whilst the campaign was successful in urging global leaders to pledge their support to Nigeria (Stewart, 2014), the effort to rescue all the girls was prolonged and complex. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onsc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}