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The Impacts of Crip Camp: How it Relates to Other Social Movements
In the documentary Crip Camp, we are are told a story of a summer camp that had opened for disabled bodies. Though, going deeper, it lead...

bdemouy1
Sep 30, 20221 min read
Personalization and Acceleration of Gun Control Activism
In the article by Poell and van Dijck, "Social Media and Activist Communication," it is discussed how communication has evolved and...

bdemouy1
Sep 30, 20222 min read
History of Anticonsumerism
I don't know if there are any cool documentaries about consumerism and the resistance against it. The Wikipedia page is pretty short for...

Andrew P
Sep 30, 20221 min read
Crip Camp and Disability Rights Movements
This week we watched the documentary Crip Camp, which depicts how a camp for disabled youth inspired a lot of the work done in the...
ellie
Sep 30, 20222 min read
Crip Camp Week 5
This week’s documentary is actually the same movement that I’m focusing on for this class, so I found it very interesting. The 504 was...

Kyra
Sep 30, 20221 min read
Week 5: Crip Camp
Watching Crip Camp and discussing the disability rights movement in class this week was very informative in learning how a movement grows...

marym3
Sep 30, 20221 min read
Poell and Van Dijck
I confess, this reading turned out to be harder to wrap my mind around than I initially thought. Understanding that the terms Poell and...

mf64773
Sep 26, 20221 min read


Personalization + Acceleration in Relation to Medical Misogyny
Medical misogyny is an issue within the medical industry which relates to the mistreatment and ignorance of women's issues. This can...
Abrielle
Sep 25, 20222 min read
Dynamics of Acceleration and Personalization in #ActuallyAutistic
For this week, we read "Social Media and Activist Communication," an article by Poell and van Dijck. In this piece, the authors discussed...
ellie
Sep 23, 20222 min read


Blog post week 4
The Poel and Van Dijk piece we read for this week discusses the terms of acceleration and personalization. These concepts, while complex,...
alexis
Sep 23, 20222 min read
Week 4 blog post
This week we read ”Social Media and activist communication” by Poell and van Dijck, which introduced the concepts of acceleration and...

Kyra
Sep 23, 20221 min read
Week 4 Blog Post
This week’s reading, Thomas Poell and José van Djick’s “Social media and activist communication,” explores the changing dynamics of...
Cole
Sep 23, 20222 min read
Acceleration? Personalization?
Hiyooo! It's me Sydnee, here, and this week we covered acceleration and personalization--a concept that I thought I understood, at least,...
Sydnee
Sep 23, 20222 min read


Acceleration and Personalization: Bringing Trans Issues to the Surface
The dynamics of acceleration and personalization, as observed by Poell and van Dijck, allow sources with varying levels of influence and...
Dylan Zumwalt
Sep 23, 20221 min read


Sustainability- Acceleration or Personification?
In their article "Social Media and Activist Communication," Poell and van Dijck describe two dynamics that describe how social movements...

Rachel
Sep 23, 20221 min read
Acceleration and Personalization
In the article “Social media and activist communication,” Thomas Poell and José van Dijck define two key concepts. Acceleration is...

marym3
Sep 23, 20221 min read


Acceleration and Personalization in Social Media and Their Relation to Children's Mental Health.
In the article Social Media and Activist Communication by Thomas Poell and Jose Van Dijck, "acceleration" and "personalization" are two...

Des
Sep 22, 20222 min read
Poell and Van Djick
In class today we discussed Poell and Van Djick's concepts of acceleration and personalization. As I understand them, these concepts are...

Laura
Sep 22, 20221 min read
Week 3 Blog
We know that Poell and van Dijck bring up great points in comparing different types of activist communication styles - personalization,...
ldrake15
Sep 22, 20221 min read
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