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Digital Justice: An Exploratory Study Of Digital Activism Actions On Twitter, Damien Sánchez
Digital Justice: An Exploratory Study Of Digital Activism Actions On Twitter, Damien Sánchez
Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE)
This paper employs learning analytics to determine the relationships between digital activism action categories. Organizing that took place on Twitter in response to the shooting death of Tony Robinson, an African American teenager, was guided by the digital activism typology developed by Penney and Dadas (2014). The results yielded a positive correlation between seeking connections with activists and providing face-to-face updates from protests, which suggests people who seek connections with activists are likely to participate in live protests. Forwarding Information and Facilitating Online Actions were found to be negatively correlated with all other study variables. These findings lead to the …