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Activism & Protest

Ok, yes today’s meme is kind of lame but I mean, shit! You try finding a meme that is funny, relates to music and activism. The meme is from the Don’t Kill Live Music rally that I touched on in my last post (https://junkee.com/dont-kill-live-music-rally/194933?fbclid=IwAR0976e5dYsBv6TYgtCNP6Eek_h1TgxtrmZVzBg-H9-iguwaxNE0UBX5pu8) and today’s topic is closely related, activism and protest in the digital age. To explore this, I want to talk about a fairly grim revolution that took place in Tunisia in 2011 and the self-immolation of a local Tunisian, so I suppose I should apologise for the lack of music based content. In regions such as Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia in 2010 had become victim to heavy censorship and police repression in order to silence the protests of the oppressive government (https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/01/2011126121815985483.html). On the 17th of December 2010, Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest which was the spark that the people of Sidi Bouzid used to break the censorship, taking to twitter and social media with the hashtag #sidibouzid. The Tunisian government attempted to shut this coverage of the protests and riots; however, it was far too late at this point. The rest of the world had been exposed to the injustices within Tunisia and people from all around the world offered to post on behalf of Tunisians to ensure the coverage continued (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAuxNXmAbyY). On social media, the world showed solidarity towards Tunisia. But what exactly does solidarity achieve? According to academic, Mary Joyce, there are three positions towards social media as a tool for activism and protest: https://www.arifyildirim.com/ilt510/marcos.sivitanides.vivek.shah.pdf

1.       Optimists who believe that digital activism will alter existing political hierarchies

2.       Pessimists who believe digital activism can be constructive or destructive

3.       Persistents who may be optimistic or pessimistic about digital technology, but they do not believe the internet to be exceptional. The same rules of politics apply and technology won’t change that.

Eventually, the protests and riots that took place in Tunisia led to the ousting of president Ben Ali and the implementation of free and democratic elections, so you be the judge of the role social media played in the saga.

Now, it would be remiss of me to post about online activism without talking about ‘culture jamming’ and given it’s a far more lighter topic to talk about than riots and people setting themselves on fire, it is a welcome change of pace. According to Wikipedia (which I generally wouldn’t rely on for definitions, however, this is quite a neat way of putting it), culture jamming “is the act of using existing mass media to comment on those very media themselves, using the original medium's communication method.” In other words, taking a brand icon or slogan and modifying it in an often sarcastic way in order to critique brands, politics, etc. the most common form of culture jamming that you’re probably already aware of are memes (http://politicalmemes.com/lets-get-back-to-that-wall-talk/). There are however, many forms of culture jamming. Check out Ad Busters for example. Ad Busters is an organisation that produce not only culture jamming online content, but also produce products such as clothing that attempts to combat the branded clothing (https://www.adbusters.org/). For more on culture Jamming visit https://depts.washington.edu/ccce/polcommcampaigns/CultureJamming.htm which has a decent overview of culture jamming.

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Two suspected jihadists committed suicide on Thursday in Tunisia by firing explosive belts during a shootout with security forces, the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior said. The police had invested their lair, located in Jilma, about 250 km south of Tunis, in the center of the country, added the ministry. One of the two men killed was identified as Azzedine Alaoui, head of the "Jihad Brigade and Unity", said spokesman for the anti-terrorist judiciary Sofiene Sliti. Read the full article

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زفاف نجل بو علي المباركي : شبح الإنقراض يهدد “العلوش العربي”

على خلفية زواج نجل القيادي في المنظمة الشغيلة بو علي المباركي، اعربت المنظمة غير الحكومية ”WWF“ التي تعمل على حماية المحيط وترسيخ مبادئ التنمية المستدامة عن قلقها إزاء التدني الملحوظ لقطيع خرفان “العلوش العربي” بالبلاد التونسية. واثر زيارة ميدانية قام بها فريق مبعوث بالمنظمة، تم إصدار تقرير بالغرض ورد فيه أن تدهور القطيع الوطني يمكن أن يتسبب في إنقراض هذه الفصيلة من الخرفان من بلادنا، و أنه من…

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#HashtagActivism

#The #Power #Of #A #Hashtag

This blog post illustrates and analyzes the impact that digital media has in forming and implementing a political movement or campaign. In particular, it discusses the role which the hashtag uses to initiate and to spread the movement or campaign. This act or process is commonly referred to as hashtag activism. The political movements demonstrated are #FeesMustFall and  #Sidibouzid in relation to the Arab Spring uprising. In addition, this blog post depicts the #MeToo campaign and the motives behind it.

A ‘hashtag’ is a word or a multiword phrase that is preceded by a hash symbol (#). Hashtags are included in a post or caption that individuals upload or share on social media, websites and mobile applications. However, they are predominantly used on Twitter and Instagram (Kricfalusi, 2009).

When one is searching for a specific topic, one can type in the specific hashtag to find all the posts that are related to that topic. This can be achieved as hashtags are used to categorise content and as a means of tracking the topics. The cycle of an individual adding a specific hashtag to their posts, as well as their continuous sharing and retweeting of them, is what transforms the hashtag into a trend. This ultimately aids in the hashtag becoming a popular topic on social media (Kricfalusi, 2009). This idea displays how the constant use of hashtags enables the pushing and spreading of an idea or topic which has become known as hashtag activism (Kricfalusi, 2009).

The #FeesMustFall Movement epitomises the impact that social media has in pushing and reinforcing certain beliefs and values. This hegemony was achieved by tweeting, sharing or retweeting posts, which started trending in twitter by using the hashtag #FeesMustFall, thus immediately reaching Facebook as well as many other social media platforms (Findley, 2015). The trending hashtag is what made users aware of the movement, thus including what the movement stood for and the ways in which they wanted to influence the universities decision regarding the fees (Findley, 2015).

Students and reporters could broadcast the events before mainstream media became aware of the happenings (Findley, 2015). This type of hegemony is shown as the power was shifted from mainstream or authoritarian figures onto students whom were actively involved in broadcasting the events on social media platforms.

Even though the protests started because of the accounts end of the fees increase which led onto the issues involved in the lack of funding from the government for those individuals in a low socio-economic position, to continue attending university. These protests were initially put in place and implemented via Twitter and the trending of #FeesMustFall on multiple social media platforms involving peaceful tactics, such as sit-ins, barricading of access points and vehicles (Findley, 2015). However, as the protests continue it progressively turned violent with the use if stun grenades, teasers, coloured gas, tear gas, rubber bullets and the burning of campus property including equipment and buildings. However, despite the consequences of those whom were injured or suffered with detrimental physically or emotional damages, these issues spiralled into broader socio-economic and racial inequality affairs (Findley, 2015). The majority of the students were despondent and felt strongly about the fact that they felt that even in South Africa post-1994, government still have not recognised and addressed the inequality that heavily exists especially in the territory setting (Findley, 2015). The 2015 protests ended when South African President, Jacob Zuma announced that there would be no tuition fee increase for the upcoming year. Nevertheless, in 2016 the #FeesMustFall reoccurred when the South African Council of Higher Education stated far there would be a fee increase of eight per cent for 2017 (Findley, 2015). As a result of the statement, it was decided upon by each of the institutions to determine by how much their tuition would increase their fees.

Similar to the #FeesMustFall Movement, social media also played a significant role during the Arab uprising, otherwise referred to as the Arab Spring, as it spread awareness and initiated interactions regarding political concerns (Howard et al, 2011). Those whom were actively involved on social media are the individuals who organised the demonstrations and protests as a way of raising local and global awareness of the on-going events (Howard et al, 2011). Civil society leaders in Arab countries accentuated and emphasised the role of ‘the internet, mobile phones and social media in the protest’ (Howard and Muzammil, 2011). Additionally, digital media was used in the means of exercising their freedom of speech as well as used as a space for civic engagement (Howard and Muzammil, 2011).

The sudden uprising in the Middle East was a direct response to the incidents of a vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi  who set himself on fire on the 17th of December 2010 in the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid as a means of expressing his dissatisfaction with the government for confiscating his fruit stand, which he heavily relied on as his sole income (Howard et al, 2011). The event of Mohamed Bouazizi was immediately documented on social media, especially on Twitter and then reached Facebook, YouTube, blogs and independent media organisation platforms before reaching mainstream media. In total, there were 13,262 Tweets using the hashtag #Sidibouzid (Howard et al, 2011). This sparked angst and frustration to protest against the government in the Middle East due to their disapproval of the economic status of the countries that they live in. Unable to control the demonstrations and the aggressive citizens, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia fled the country in January 2011 after 23 years in power (Howard et al, 2011). Ben Ali’s resulted in the consequences of similar nature of uprisings across the Middle East (Howard et al, 2011).

Arab spring timeline

Another example of how powerful the usage of hashtag is is demonstrated by #MeToo. The #MeToo campaign started to trend virally on social media in the beginning of October 2017 (Chuck, 2017). The hashtag was in response to sexual assault and harassment in coloration to the sexual misconduct allegations against Harvey Weinstein, whom is a well-known film producer in the United States of America.

The New York Times recently published an investigation in which indicated that Weinstein has been accused of sexually harassing female actors, especially those of a young age, which has been ongoing for decades (Chuck, 2017). This including inappropriate messages and physical conduct as well as several reported encounters of rape.

Actress Alyssa Milano encouraged the use of the hashtag, #MeToo, after the accusations against Weinstein had surfaced. This was done as an initiative of creating a campaign in the means of spreading the awareness of incidents regarding sexual harassment. 

Milano tweeted: "If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote '#MeToo.' as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem." 

Milano attributed her spreading of #MeToo, for victims to share their experiences, to social activist and community organizer Tarana Burke. Burke was the one whom initially created the phrase "MeToo" on the MySpace social networking site in 2006. This was done in association with a campaign in the promoting of "empowerment through empathy" among women of colour, in particular those belonging to underprivileged communities, whom have been victims of sexual assault.

Burke explains that the term ‘Me Too’ was inspired after a thirteen year old girl confined in her and expressed that she had been sexually abused. At the time, Burke was too bewildered to reply. However, she later regret not replying with “me too”. 

It was noticed that within the first twenty-four hours of Milano’s tweet, the hashtag was used by over 4.7 million people in over than 12 million posts. In addition, by the 16th of October 2017, there were over five-hundred million tweets with the #MeToo hashtag included (Chuck, 2017). This spread of the hastag caused it to trend in at least eighty-five countries through social media. These posts included both the victims’ experiences as well as support for those whom have suffered as a result of sexual assault (Chuck, 2017). This included a range of celebrities. 

Furthermore, the hashtag enabled those whom were affected by Weinstein to stand forward.  

On the 28th of October 2017, Actress and director, Asia Argento, tweeted “This is the list of all the 82 women who were sexually assaulted/raped/molested by #HarveyWeinstein. We,the victims, have compiled this list”.

The trending of #MeToo  also allowed an open space for all individuals whom experienced sexual assault to share their stories. It also exposed many other public figures across the globe involved in sexual harassment incidents, both the victims and the abusers.  

In conclusion, this post depicted the concept of hashtag activism and the significant role in which the hashtag plays in initiating and the spreading of a particular political movement or campaign. Hashtag activism has developed due to digital media as the spreading and the trending of a specific hashtag is predominantly due to Twitter and Facebook. in demonstrating this specific type of activism, the blog discussed #FeesMustFall, #Sidibouzi movement as well as the #MeToo campaign.

Bibliography:

Chuck, E. (2017).  #MeToo: Hashtag Becomes Anti-Sexual Harassment and Assault Rallying Cry. [Web blog]. Retrieved October 29, 2017 from: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/harvey-weinstein-scandal/metoo-hashtag-becomes-anti-sexual-harassment-assault-rallying-cry-n810986

Findley, K. (2015). The birth of a movement: #FeesMustFall on Twitter. [Web blog]. Online, retrieved  October 17, 2017  from: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2015-10-30-the-birth-of-a-movement-feesmustfall-on-twitter/

Howard, P. N., Duffy, A., Freelon, D., Hussain, M.M., Mari, W., and Maziad, Marwa, (2011) Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring?.Online, retrieved October 16, 2017 from:  https://ssrn.com/abstract=2595096 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2595096

Howard, P.N., and Muzammil M.H., (2011)  "The Role of Digital Media." Journal of Democracy. Retrieved October 16, 2017 from: http://aihr-resourcescenter.org/administrator/upload/documents/22.3.howard.pdf

Kricfalusi, E. (2009). The Twitter hash tag: What is it and how do you use it?. Online, retrieved October 16, 2017  from:  http://tinyurl.com/bw85z2

Scott, D. (2017). Harvey Weinstein’s victims release list of 82 women who say they were sexually abused. Weinstein's victims sought to compile a full picture of abuse. [Web blog] Retrieved October 28, 2017 from: https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/10/28/16564486/harvey-weinstein-sexual-abuse-list-twitter

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