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I looked up the definition of “Social Activism” and got, “Social activism is an intentional action with the goal of bringing about social change. If you feel strongly about a cause and are working towards a change, you could be considered an activist. An activist is anyone who is fighting for change in society” (https://www.amherst.edu/campuslife/careers/amherst-careers-in/government-nonprofit/picareers/careers/social_activism). It’s quite impressive to be aContinue reading “Week 14”

With everyone being tied up in social media, it’s become a shame to constantly checking your phone and media when you’re in a social setting or interacting with others. Devoting your full attention to whoever you’re around is the standard in those social settings which is what makes it looked upon to check your phoneContinue reading “Week 13”

After reading the articles and power points, a few solid points came to mind. It seems that nude protests differ from traditional protests because they do reconfigure the body politic by framing vulnerability as a basis for exchange and staging intimate zones of disruption and dis-identification. It also seems that a raised idea is thatContinue reading “Week 12”

This weeks reading had a part in it that really stood out to me. The part that read, “The Internet is different now. There was no Twitter back then—at least not the Twitter we know now. There were comments that we took to heart, but it rarely felt like being under assault. Of course, that’sContinue reading “Tweet This”

Twilight took over the world when first released in 2005. It’s success of its books, five movies, and countless fan fictions struck the attention of many. In the story, Bella Swan, an everyday high school teenager was swept off her feet for Edward Cullen the immortal Vampire. His desire for Bella’s blood is equal toContinue reading “This Week”

For many young people, social media can become almost addictive. Social networking plays a vital role in broadening teen social connections and views. While yes, it’s helping them learn valuable technical skills but it severely impacts the developing brains because of how extremely vulnerable they are and how much online time is spent. The youthContinue reading “Effects of Media”

There seems to be many ways to define what embodiment has meant in feminism. In general, embodiment has created an idea that has the power to establish or give existence to a relationship of the live body to thought, to knowledge, and to ethics. I found this weeks readings really interesting and I’m really gladContinue reading “Embodiment”

This set of articles was definitely interesting. Today’s media is really concerning for younger people who live by social media. One quote that stood out to me in “Beyond Representation: Embodied Expression and Social Me-dia” was when they wrote, “Currently, digital media remix culture is one where “real life” (RL) and “virtual life” (VL) structuresContinue reading “Blog 3”

When I first started reading this reading there was immediately one quote that stood out to me. It was in the first few lines of the intro and read, “That artifacts are themselves shaped by gender relations, meanings and identities was demonstrated – from refrigerators to contraceptives, from houses, cars and cities to word processorsContinue reading “Post 2”

How might these two fields–feminist rhetorical studies and digital rhetoric–inform one another? Do you see productive connections? Disconnections? While feminist rhetorical studies and digital rhetoric are different ideas, they inform each other in many ways. There’s a quote from the article “Defining and Locating Digital Rhetoric” by Douglas Eyman that really ties in a bigContinue reading “My First Blog Post”