Where we can’t ignore the role online activism has played in spreading awareness of organizing efforts, including the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, and Black Lives Matter, the “hastagification” or “meme-ification” of activism is a serious cause for concern. Not only because the social act of activism is becoming a commodity (in the sense of contributing t…
…e right-wing magazine, who takes the opportunity to apologise for being mean to me on the internet. He thought that was just how you’re supposed to do Twitter. We become, briefly, allies on foreign soil. A certain school of spiteful camaraderie, of bloodless …