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From Swiffers To Swastikas: How The #Tradwife Movement Of Conventional Gender Roles Became Synonymous With White Supremacy, Frankie Hope Sitler-Elbel
From Swiffers To Swastikas: How The #Tradwife Movement Of Conventional Gender Roles Became Synonymous With White Supremacy, Frankie Hope Sitler-Elbel
Senior Projects Spring 2021
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.
The 21st Century Activist's Dilemma: Social Media's Impact On The Occupy And Tea Party Movements, Alexander Elliott Carter-Parks
The 21st Century Activist's Dilemma: Social Media's Impact On The Occupy And Tea Party Movements, Alexander Elliott Carter-Parks
Senior Projects Spring 2015
This paper examines the influence of social media on political participation in American social movements, focusing on the cases of the Occupy and Tea Party movements during their heyday in the period from 2009 to 2012 as a framework for analysis. Users of these social networks have access to instantaneous information dissemination, broad new political networks, and a wealth of radical thought; but also can be diverted from real-world participation by the appeal of low-cost online activism. Using a foundation of strong-tie/weak-tie activism theory, demographics surveys, and media coverage this paper argues that social media has reshaped the process by …