Digital Connectivity & Real World Connectedness and Movement Proliferation & the Breakdown of Leadership

Digital Connectivity & Real World Connectedness Reflect on your own experience with social media, consider the relationship between digital connectivity and real-world connectedness discussed in the readings and lecture this week. Respond to the following questions in this first discussion board: • How do the events surrounding the Feminist Twitter Wars reveal inequities in the voices that represent feminism in the public sphere? • Do you think that increased online feminist activism promotes change in the real world? Explain your position Movement Proliferation & the Breakdown of Leadership New models for social movement organizing and leadership with the rise of digital activism. Given Malcolm Gladwell's critique of online activism and considering the public support and criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement, • Do you think that social movements affect change in the everyday lives of people when they are based primarily through digital networks? • How has your own engagement with social media shifted your thinking around certain social and political issues?      

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