LLCU 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: E-Democracy, Occupy Wall Street, Fundraising
8 Feb 2018
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Digital organization (organizing around a specific political, economic or social topic) Social media is transforming the way we mobilize and organize to engage with political, economic and social issues. Organization and mobilization (both digital and actual mobilization) Important way to conceptually think about this type of activism. Every 30 hours, a woman is killed in argentina. This hashtag campaign is raise a lot of awareness not only in latin america, but others. Original goal: to change political legislation, to promote the creation of a law around this particular topic. Anti-corruption of banks and corporations and the role of wallstreet in the economic collapse. Provoked global conversation on economic inequality and social justice. Outcomes: mobilization and branding of the 99% Limitations: (cid:498)slacktivism(cid:499): activism in a lazy manner. Online presence of movement made surveillance and tracking easier for police and government. Individuals involved in the campaigns were being tracked and penalized for their participation.
