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[resident44776]

i've got 4 pages written today for my futurefic and im part relieved and part proud. i think i should have it out soon!! the working title is "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" and it's about the time after Dr Young gets trapped on floor 13 >:3 i should have it out in the next few days!!

[melonfacade]

when-you-were-youngposting tn

[whanlon]

The Power of Digital Activism

The internet is now such a large place that connects so many people around the world. On it, there are many different opinions and viewpoints about a whole range of things. Sometimes, when something pops up that a group of people take dislike to, they will begin campaigning against it.

Campaigning and activism “consist of individual or collective actions designed to address issues of public concern” to make a positive difference in life (Times of Malta 2019) and is important because it represents people having a “unyielding desire for a better society” (Ng 2019) and a voice for change. Digital activism describes the act of activism on the internet. This means you get a group of people in a group online, such as a Facebook group, who strive to achieve the same goal of changing something for the better. Digital activism has “transformed political protests in the last two decades” (Karatzogianni 2018) because of how smartphones and the internet the way protests and movements are organised.

An example of this was the Arab Spring, which was a series of anti-government protests throughout North Africa and the Middle East from 2010-2012. The uprisings were fuelled by social media, as there were networks formed online that organized groups of activists in Egypt (Brown et al. 2012) and many young protestors would be in the streets with smartphones in hand. This shows how digital activism has extreme power, especially over the younger generation, and how a simple Facebook page or the like can be the catalyst for something much bigger.

The Arab Spring became a large movement that grew to many different countries and campaigned for positive change.

Digital activism can sometimes be a dangerous thing too. It can become a powerful way to express dissent and disrupt and can sometimes lead to revolutions as activists can use it as “technological tools of liberation, devising creative hacks to defy state censorship” (Al-Sharif 2018).

Times of Malta 2019, ‘Why activism is so important’, Times of Malta, 8 September, viewed 5 June 2020, <https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/why-activism-is-so-important.733921>.

Ng, B 2019, ‘Why youth activism is more important now than ever before’, Youngpost, 4 April, viewed 5 June 2020, <https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/your-voice/opinion/article/3061830/why-youth-activism-more-important-now-ever>.

Karatzogianni, A 2018, ‘Beyond hashtags: how a new wave of digital activists is changing society’, The Conversation, 11 April, viewed 5 June 2020, <https://theconversation.com/beyond-hashtags-how-a-new-wave-of-digital-activists-is-changing-society-57502>.

Al-Sharif, M 2018, ‘The Dangers of Digital Activism’, The New York Times, 16 September, viewed 5 June 2020, <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/opinion/politics/the-dangers-of-digital-activism.html>.

Brown, H, Guskin, E, Mitchell, A 2012, ‘The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings’, Pew Research Center, November 28, viewed 5 June 2020, < https://www.journalism.org/2012/11/28/role-social-media-arab-uprisings/>.

[fyeahcindie]

Listen/purchase: Colors by Strange Lives

Let’s check out the very young Hong Kong trio Strange Lives   =D

They are: Elliott Wan-voc/gtr/keys, Ethan Tang-bass, Ethan Yim-drums. Their debut ep was released last fall, and they have a new single called Right Now:

Back in January, Elliot did a very informative feature interview with Chris Gillett from YoungPost-South China Morning Post, check that out HERE.

[biplobice]

Alan Walker & Ava Max Lyrics " I am not Gonna Make it Alone, Pt. II"

Alan Walker & Ava Max Lyrics ” I am not Gonna Make it Alone, Pt. II”

We were youngPosters on the wallPraying we’re the onesThat the teacher wouldn’t callWe would stare at each other‘Cause we were always in trouble And all the cool kidsDid their own thingI was on the outsideAlways looking inYeah, I was there but I wasn’tThey never really cared if I wasn’t We all need that someoneWho gets you like no one elseRight when you need it the mostWe all need a soul to…

[huttson-blog]

Mxmtoon continues her impressive musical journey with new EP 'Dawn' — Youngpost

Mxmtoon continues her impressive musical journey with new EP ‘Dawn’ — Youngpost

Read more at Youngpost

— by Chris Gillett: The singer-songwriter, real name Maia, has already built up an impressive collection of songs. She went viral in 2018 with the song ‘Falling For U’…

Image courtesy of Kobalt

[bonescenes]

Should I be more sentimental about shit? I should have kept the first book I’ve ever win on YoungPost, but I thought since I didn’t like the book so why keep it? But then when you see people having these strong emotions over the littlest things because of the memories that associate with them, you will start to question your own emotional capabilities and you started to compare, and will spiral into a shit load of crap you don’t want in your brain.

[resident44776]

greekposting

Spoilers for s5 currently thinking about the parallel of the Minotaur and Theseus with FUTURE and Dr. Howard Young (but in this one Theseus is killed, not the other way around) like i know this podcast has references to greek myth with like Argos, Aristaeus, Minos, and the beloved Ship of Theseus paradox. but like. Future controls a maze. and is penned in when floor 13 is cut off from typhon. The minotaur is trapped in a labyrinth designed to keep the monster in. Theseus traverses the labyrinth and is led to slay the minotaur. Young is led by Sayer to floor 13 to kill off something it considers a threat of replacement, young is (eventually) killed by Future(minotaur). This time the minotaur wins. with a MC like Sayer who loves the ship of Theseus making it's own Theseus paradox both by following the story/myth about the man Theseus and then the philosophical theseus,, insane. love it.