Practices
Tech-savvy activists engage in practices of opening, closing and transforming digital environments to the benefit of a collective cause
What is hacktivism?
It implies differentiated access, uses and practices on digital media
What is the digital divide?
Citizens must enact their rights and duties to make them effective
What is the performative dimension of citizenship?
He uncovered a massive surveillance practice led by the National Security Agency (NSA)
Who is Edward Snowden?
They seem relatable, and their civic and political views might affect their thousands of followers
Who are the influencers?
Algorithm-driven operations that predict and narrow down the content that we consume on digital platforms
What are filter bubbles?
An institution mediating rights and responsibilities between citizens and their polity
What is citizenship?
He is the most prominent person associated with one of the best-known examples of leaks journalism
Who is Julian Assange?
They are both in the streets and on social media, representing social and political causes. One of the most visible examples of this citizenship practice is BLM
What is a social movement?
False content presented with bad intentions
What is disinformation?
It can be understood as a growing set of practices focusing on enacting rights and making new claims in the digital space
What is digital citizenship?
A hacktivist group, it has engaged in subversive actions against corporates and governments worldwide
Who is Anonymous?
It uses one of the most visible affordances of social media platforms to put together narratives and communities around a cause
What is hashtag activism?
The process of massive data collection that aggregates and defines how our behaviours are read in the digital environment
What is datafication?
It refers both, to citizens coming together as political subjects and the space where collective interests are deliberated about
What is the public?
It started with "an innocent" survey app attached to Facebook and affected elections in countries such as UK and USA
What is the Cambridge Analytica scandal?
It puts together the professional mindset of journalism with a grassroots approach to events worldwide producing alternative information
What is citizen journalism?
We only engage in conversations with like-minded people, which strongly limits our engagement in society
What are echo chambers?
Emphasizes the individual freedoms and the status of citizens regarding their polity
What is liberal citizenship?
He created a normative ideal to understand spaces of public deliberation in societies. His model is known as "the public sphere"
Who is Jurgen Habermas?