go to “Black Lives Matter”             Social transformation                   no thought about what it means

…. activism => people who are casually making activism / casual way / blasé

hashtag BLM                     social media                        past few days

what social media do to a cause                    slacktivism = armchair activism

what are the consequences                  drawback?         harm a cause                           do as an activist               what that means when you do that                protection

a moment of silence / post hashtag                     Tuesday

protest what is happening around the nation               criticism

post black squares for the show.. => slacktivism?           putting two words together

slacker => doesn’t contribute to the post when they just post black squares.

city                        scrolling on your phone                flood of black squares

Tuesday, January 19th 2021

What social media do and don’t do for a cause.

This is an interview on KUER radio which is an American radio from Utah. We can hear a guest and a woman. He is a professor in Social transformation and she works for the radio. They are talking about slacktivism: when you just participate to a cause for the show. This word is composed of two words: slacker + activism. It means it’s casual activism, or “armchair activism”. You do it in a casual blasé way. 

The professor talks about the movement “Black Lives Matter” as an example. People were protesting and started posting black squares on Instagram but there were so many posts of black squares that in the end, people didn’t pay attention. in the end, information is gone, just replaced by black squares. 

Any advantages to online activism: “What are the advantages of online activism?”

• it can be from home (more comfortable, cosier)

• it can be done by disabled people who cannot go and march in the streets

• when you are online, you can remain anonymous

• you can touch more people more easily

• everyone feels / can feel concerned

• you are protected from other people and especially the police brutality

• in case of a pandemic like Covid19, it’s better to protest online

Drawbacks to online activism:

• you are more involved when you are in the streets / you are less involved when you are at home

• going in the streets / demonstrating / marching has more impact

• you can be physically present with other people who support the same cause.

Barack Obama takes on “woke” call-out culture that’s not activism

the world is messy          making change          that’s not activism 

it’s / that’s not bringing about changes                twitter / hashtags

people who you are fighting may love their kids            ambiguities

that’s easy to do            that’s enough

something right          the wrong words          the way that it’s changed

people who do really good stuff                idea of purity       should get over that

the way that we make changes        watch my show on TV (Grown-ish)

… go to school with my daughter (Malia)

get that far

politically “woke”

you never compromise

the danger I see / young people / accelerated by social media

judged by other people