Assignment task: Do outlying ideas, groups, issues, or voices gain greater public visibility through social media platforms? Or are hegemonic power relations merely reproduced? Drawing upon one contemporary example, discuss, analyze, and support your position.
Your paper must include 4 scholarly sources from below
Your paper must have an introduction/ thesis; 3 body paragraphs with evidence and analysis; and a conclusion
Bibliography to use:
- Hautea, S., Parks, P., Takahashi, B., & Zeng, J. (2021). Showing they care (or don't): Affective publics and ambivalent climate activism on TikTok.Social Media + Society, 7(2), 1-14.
- Jackson, S. J. & Foucault Welles, B. (2016). #Hijacking #myNYPD: Social media dissent and networked counterpublics. Journal of Communication, 65(6), 932-952.
- Papacharissi, Z. (2015). Affective publics: Sentiment, technology, and politics. Oxford University Press.
- Shirky, C. (2011). The political power of social media: Technology, the public sphere, and political change. Foreign Affairs, 28-41.
- Singh, R. (2018). Platform feminism: Protest and the politics of spatial organization. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, 14(1).