A student studying communication at Deakin University

Source: Ana Mendes, 'Young European and digital activism', Council of Europe European Union . Online activist often being scorned as slacktivism (Gladwell 2010; Morozov 2009, cited in Cabrera 2017). However, this view was too generalized and narrow (Cabrera 2017). Digital activism is another form of activism that may offer and allow bigger space to voice movements. The online space has allowed more opportunities for people to promote social justice beyond their capable scope offline (Biddix 2010, cited in Cabrera 2017). With the unlimited reach, digital activism helps to create democratic space and engagement for everyone, anywhere (Biddix 2010; Pasque and Vargas 2014, cited in Cabrera 2017). Recently, a social movement and protest, Black Lives Matter, occurred regarding the death of George Floyd. The tragedy was happening in the middle of the Pandemic. All the petitions and movements were held online, mostly via Instagram by millions of people. Neal Caren, who studies social m...

Source: Delft Design For Value, 2018  Social media has always been a platform for people to share ideas without needing to show their identity. In this modern era, it is relatively impossible not to have any social media. A study by Pew (2018, cited in Kruse et al. 2018) found that half of the U.S population, with 80 percent of the young adults, used social media. The wide range of internet access allows people to connect through the public sphere, which defined by Habermas ([1989] 1991:27 cited in Kruse et al. 2018) as “a place where ‘private people come together as a public’ to use reason to further critical knowledge which, in turn, leads to political change. However, the public sphere was barely hard to thrive in modernity due to money influence in mass media interest Habermas ([1989] 1991, cited in Kruse et al. 2018). Nonetheless, the widespread of networked information and more significant opportunity for public speech through the Internet has revitalized the public sphere (S...

Source: prostockstudio, VectorStock Questions: How have dominant conceptualisations of gender, sexuality, and/or so-called ‘race’ influenced identity construction in online spaces? Have users at times subverted traditional expectations and in what ways? What ‘digital divides’ are you aware of existing within Australia and beyond? Is this just a matter of access to technology or are there other forms? How might exposure to digital divides impact on one’s online identity? In what ways have socially and politically marginalised individuals and groups pushed back against systemic power structures to create powerful online identities and communities? List as many examples as you can think of. What considerations must be taken into account in relation to online dating and identity-building? How do dating sites impact on people’s self-presentation in their profiles? What role do algorithms play in the evaluation of user compatibility? What does this suggest about the relationship between iden...