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ENG 2850: Writing for Social Media Cara Marta Messina Assignment 3: Participating in Digital Activism Office Hours If you have questions, I have virtual office hours every Tuesday and Thursday from 1-3pm EST. Please use ​this Calendly link to schedule an appointment​. If you cannot make that time, let me know and we can schedule another time! About Digital Activism Our readings have focused quite a bit on digital activism and the different methods of digital activism that take place. Yuhan, your colleague, has already defined digital activism: ● “[Digital activism] is the use of electronic communication technologies such as social media, especially Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, e-mail, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster communication by citizen movements and the delivery of local information to a large audience.” (Yuhan, from our ​Glossary Terms​) There are, of course, layers to definitions of digital activism. For example, in ​Alexander and Hahner’s “The Intimate Screen,”​ they address how digital activism uses technologies’ affordances to create connection and familiarity for social justice purposes, or specifically for reshaping narratives around people with Down syndrome. This type of digital activism is posting images, sharing stories, and celebrating children with Ds. Christy’s Instagram account is specifically focused on digital activism & creating an intimate screen. In "#MyNYPD: Transforming Twitter into a Public Place for Protest" by Tracey Hayes, Hayes explores how Twitter can be an actual ​site​ of protest, not just a place to disseminate information and form connections. Unlike Christy’s Instagram account, Hayes looks at a collection of Tweets from various users who hijacked the #MyNYPD hashtag to protest police brutality. By disrupting this hashtag, digital protestors rejected the NYPD’s attempt at making a connection with the community. We also see fan labor merge with digital activism in ​"Black Panther fandom and transformative social practices" by Tracy Deonn Walker​. Fan labor, or fan composing practices, are the different creative and analytical approaches fans take to engage with each other and celebrate the texts they love; in Walker’s article, her subjects are fan--particularly Black fans--of ​The Black Panther​. While Walker does not straight up refer to these fan labor practices as digital activism, Specifically, she looks at narrative extraction, which “is the process and labor that audience members undertake when engaging with narratives that don't represent them as protagonists or fully realized characters.” While this was important for ​The Black Panther​ in the years/months before it came out, ENG 2850: Writing for Social Media Cara Marta Messina these practices are also important for fans of color to engage with and explore characters of color, findings ways to represent and understand themselves. We have also seen digital activism in Moya Bailey’s, Les Hutchins, Liza Potts, and so many other articles. About this Assignment For this assignment, you will be participating in digital activism! To participate in digital activism means you must ​produce​ ​something and post it somewhere. These will be your ​artifacts​. Once you have posted your artifacts, you will write a short reflection paper due on ​Tuesday, 06/16.​ In this reflection paper, you will talk about the types of artifacts you produced, your cause, your purpose of these artifacts, and the methods you used. You will then read your peers’ reflections and submit your final peer review email on ​Friday, 06/19​. If you want to remain anonymous and not post through personal social media accounts, I recommend looking to Reddit as an answer. There are a lot of different subreddits you can follow, such as r/BlackLivesMatter, r/GirlGames, r/ClimateActionPlan, and so many others. Pretty much any cause you care about, there is a subreddit! If you ​really​ do not want to post at all, you can draft up artifacts (example: draft a IG story and take a screenshot, or write a Facebook post in a Word Document file) and just use those in your reflection. A large part of digital activism is sharing, but I also understand this may come with a lot of stress. Digital Activism Artifacts For your digital activism, you will obviously want to choose a ​cause​. Because of the current Black Lives Matter movement, I ​highly​ recommend this cause. There are also sub-causes in BLM, such as #BlackInTheIvory and defunding police. The more specific, the better! You will also want to choose a particular ​purpose​ to post. Are you trying to ​educate​, ​create an intimate screen​, ​disrupt someone/an organization​, or another purpose? Finally, you will choose your ​method​ of digital activism. This will be the actual way you reach your purpose to perform digital activism of your cause. Here are some suggestions (you can choose multiple of these, of course): ● Create a Twitter bot to disrupt harmful/racist hashtags, such as #WhiteLivesMatter ● Find an online fan community and engage in conversations around race, gender, and forms of discrimination or misrepresentation in the particular community or larger cultural material ● Post a story on Instagram or Facebook about this cause (if you have multiple pages for one story, each page counts as one artifact) ENG 2850: Writing for Social Media Cara Marta Messina ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Create or remix memes Engage with a particular digital activism hashtag on Twitter or Instagram A post on Facebook about your cause Collect Tweets from a particular hashtag to archive them. ​Please email me if you want to do this because we will need to discuss ethics and logistics Create a video for YouTube or TikTok on a particular topic Create infographics or posts sharing information using ​Canva ​or a similar user-friendly design platform Here are other ways for “storytelling” on social media that you can also use for digital activism: ​https://buffer.com/resources/social-media-storytelling Does reposting count?​ Merely reposting something will ​not​ be enough for this assignment. If you want to repost something, you must add to it or contribute to it in some way. For example, if there is an infographic you want to share with your followers on your Instagram story, in the next few stories, write about what this infographic shows and why it is important. Assignment Requirements ● ● ● BE RESPECTFUL​. Digital activism comes with an awareness of the social and political issues, as well as how your activism may impact others. If you are engaging in digital activism, you are likely participating in a difficult conversation. Be cautious with how you take up this activism, and maybe look up some bigger activists in the cause to see how they engage? Digital activism artifacts​: You must compose and show at least ​three ​digital activism artifacts that ​you c​ reated about one cause. You will put these artifacts in your reflection piece. ○ If you created a Twitter bot, I would love to see your process, too! A Twitter bot will count as all three digital artifacts, and you can show the different Tweets your bot has published. Reflection piece​: Write a reflection (due ​Tuesday, 06/16 ​at 11:59pm EST on Canvas) about your digital activism. In this reflection, you should: ○ Write between 800-1500 words ○ Artifacts: ​Link to or screenshot your different artifacts. Describe each artifact, including your purpose, some of the choices you made in composing these artifacts, your reasoning for posting it where you posted it (if you posted it), who your intended audience was, and how others’ reacted (again, if you posted it). ○ Engage with at least 2 scholars​: Engage with at least 2 scholars from our readings this semester. This may be to define digital activism, discuss purposes, or explain your own process. ○ Reflect​: Reflect on the process of creating these artifacts and what you learned about the composing process, digital activism, the cause you chose, and your ENG 2850: Writing for Social Media Cara Marta Messina ● methods. The reflection genre is a strange one, so I will describe some of the typical aspects of a reflection genre here: ■ Describe a particular ​experience d ​ uring your composing process ■ Discuss or share your particular ​emotions ​about your composing process ■ Describe your personal ​beliefs ​and perspectives as well as how these influenced your choices while composing ■ Show an awareness of ​difficulties​ by describing any challenges you faced ■ Demonstrate an awareness of ​other perspectives​, like thinking through theory or historical/political/social contexts ■ Describe ​lessons learned​ and/or how you might apply what you learned from this digital activism in other situations Peer “review”​: You will only have ​one ​draft due, but I would still like you to read each other’s work! I will be asking you to do one final peer “review,” providing feedback on both the reflection piece and the artifacts, themselves. This will be due on ​Friday, 06/19​.
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BLACK LIVES MATTER
The movement Black Lives Matters has been on the cry for a long time rallying against
racial segregation and police violence on black women and men. As there have been a consensus
growth on systematic racism in policing and aspects of lifestyle, the coordinators of the
foundation have been trying so much to improve their momentum beyond its popularization
(Taylor, 2016). Activists have been long demanding for policy changes which include defunding
of the police in favor of social programs and even the accountability of those police officers
found guilty of killing innocent people. Therefore, it is very saddening at this new century
people around the globe are still fighting on the issues to do with racial discrimination and police
brutality. The main objective of the foundation is to eliminate white supremacy and bring the
cohesiveness of local power in intervening violence that has been inflicted on the black
community by vigilantes.
Accordingly, The movement was created back in 2013, and the results since then have
shown how hard working the activists can be in making sure the movement is moving forward to
changing people’s perception. The cause of defunding police has been the main topic as the
activists have been demanding that all the police divisions which have then become a point of
division politically even with prominent leaders expressing different ideologies on the matter.
For instance, the United States President Donald Trump has had his suggestions on his
counterpart Democratic opponent Joe Bidden that he would force to cut the police funding under
pressure, however, Bidden has also expressed concern that he does not support defunding of
police (Jose, Del Real, Robert & Tim, 2020). This shows that wherever the conversation will
end up is just a test of how the mainstream Black Lives Matter has grown to be.

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BLACK LIVES MATTER
The movement was propelled by the death of Trayvon Martin who was ill shot by the
Florida police and again two years later Michael Brown suffered the same brutality.
Demonstrations then erupted which drew aggressiveness in responding to law enforcement that
later led to the radicalization of activists group. It is since then whereby deaths of unarmed
African Americans due to police brutality have become the spine of news coverage. Moreover,
the recent development has shown how the movement would have embedded in the past few
years (Angus, & Crichlow, 2018). America has experienced a huge turn out on demonstration in
the country history with protest in over 50 states. The movement has had support from even the
giant corporate-like Walmart who have exhibited pledging messages and their obligation to
racial equality on their websites.
Figure 1, shows my tweet with protestors along then streets demanding to end the racial
discrimination and injustices towards the black people. This is huge solidarity as it clear they
are whites routing for the same justice.

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In the recent weeks, the most fatal happening that got people angered was when a white
cop was seen kneeling to a man by the name George Floyd who then succumbed. Research that
was conducted shows that most Americans believes that his death is a reflection of the broader
problem of how the black are treated by the police compared to those minority who believes such
happenings are as a result of isolated incidence thus the shift in public opinion. The ongoing
protest thus shows the bipartisan wh...


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