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Social media and social justice movements

Contextualization, history and activism

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It's about uncovering that which someone wants to keep hidden

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A good-faith attempt to make sense of the world

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journalism

• Trade journalism – press releases + commentary

• On the ground reporting• Social conversation – blogging, editorial• Data journalism• Documentary / contextual journalism

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Social media

• Outside West – focus is on war and disaster

• On the ground reporting from locals, less parachute journalism

• Outsiders – curatorial or gatewatching journalism, expert commentary

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‘Edge of the net’

• Low connectivity• Low penetration of smartphones• Low bandwidth

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Indonesia

• Poor internet• History of video activism via DV and VCD• Powerful history of independent journalism

and activism• Needs outreach to digitize and share this

material

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Outreach

• Burnstation and local LAN capture• Upload to outside servers• Low bandwidth social media and social

networking to provide context for current debate

• Archiving of important history• Contextualization of current struggles

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Temporality

• Temptation is to focus on the new, rapid – ignores history of technologies, struggles and ideas

• Social media and online publishing extends temporality beyond speed, allows annotation, discussion, multiple perspectives, contextualization

• Keeps history fresh and provides complementary coverage to mainstream coverage