Social Media as Everyday Practice: Reflections on Multiplicitous ~ Becoming ~ Activist

Date

2017

Authors

Eaton, Paul W.

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Volume Title

Publisher

Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis

Abstract

Highlighting my own daily social media practices as an example, I will unpack the various tensions and possibilities associated with being a scholar and social media activist as everyday practice. In what I refer to as multiplicitous~ becoming~activist, I harness ideas from Luis Urrieta, Jr. to challenge notions of social justice and activism identities as static, but rather as active processes that can and should be enacted within distributed social media spaces.

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Keywords

social media, activism, professional identity

Citation

Eaton, P. W. (2017) Social media as everyday practice: Reflections on multiplicitous~becoming~activist. Journal of Critical Thought & Praxis, 6(3), 55-70.