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"We've Had Enough": Youth Activists' Pathways To Participation And Social Media Practices Following The Parkland Shooting, Allyson Marie Wilcox
"We've Had Enough": Youth Activists' Pathways To Participation And Social Media Practices Following The Parkland Shooting, Allyson Marie Wilcox
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After the 2018 shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students across the United States participated in a national school walkout to protest school shootings. In conducting this study, I set out to examine two aspects of youth activism in relation to social media. First, how social media affected pathways to participation for high school students who participated in the National School Walkout. Second, how youth used social media in their activism.
Multiple case study (Yin, 2014) was used to explore how eight youth activists who organized and conducted a march for gun control laws reacted to …