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" The New Social Imaginary vs. the Education Activist: Social Media as a Conduit for Protest and Resistance "
Elizabeth Lynch
Goodman, Debra
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804416
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TL49247
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1875238459; 10256594
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Islam, Mohammad Shahedul
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The New Social Imaginary vs. the Education Activist: Social Media as a Conduit for Protest and Resistance\ Elizabeth LynchGoodman, Debra
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Hofstra University
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2017
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Ed.D.
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Literacy Studies
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2017
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310
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Committee members: Altwerger, Bess; Flurkey, Alan D.; McGinnis, Theresa; Phillips, Sharon R.
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-56411-2
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Social media has created a new generation of activism. Taking the lead from political activists who have been using social media as a means of protest and resistance across the globe, education activists increasingly rely on new literacy practices such as blogs, memes, Twitter, YouTube videos, and Facebook groups as a means to organize and mobilize. Just as Facebook and Twitter were instrumental in the Arab Spring Protests and Occupy Wall Street Movements in 2011, education activists now utilize social media tools and platforms to protest and resist policies driven by corporate led education reform. Focusing on social media based education activism in the United States, this study sought to determine how three digitally enabled education activist groups function as communities of practice and to consider their strengths and pitfalls. Within these groups, social media has served to function as a space for educating members, for sharing narratives, and for organizing for offline actions of protest and resistance. At the same time, these groups can be prone to disorders that can impact their effectiveness, such as self-interest, lack of shared identity, and an expectation of uniform thinking by members of a group, sometimes leading to internal strife.
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Education; Political science; Web Studies
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Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Education;Facebook;Memes;New literacy practices;Social media;Twitter;Youtube
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Goodman, Debra
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Literacy StudiesHofstra University
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