Slacktivism, no more: “Sanctifying” Digital Humanitarianism in a Hypermediated Refugee Crisis

February 24, 2017by susannestadlbauer Leave a comment

In the global media coverage of the present refugee crisis in Europe, digital activism has yet again received a bad name. All too familiar charges of slacktivism or armchair activism […]

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Voices in Literature: Social Critique, Resistance and the Role of the Internet

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Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not […]

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The power of the as-if space: memes, mourning, and Ryan Gosling

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There is a popular series of Vines (those six second videos that are easily shared and spread across social media platforms) in which a serious looking Ryan Gosling, most often […]

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Voices in Literature: Social Critique, Resistance and the Role of the Internet