Week 3 Blog

We know that Poell and van Dijck bring up great points in comparing different types of activist communication styles - personalization, and acceleration. In thinking about my own social media post about my argument (this week), it's easily labeled as personalization, but I'll steer away from that post since we already had a discussion post for it. Instead, I'm going to look at my movement in one piece. When exploring my movement, there is so much personalization. The acceleration type posts that one would see across this movement is the case updates in which we see how much they're fined/sentenced, what the next steps are, etc. Other than that, we see personal stories about the specific person causing so much distress in peoples lives. Grouping all of these stories together is where information can spread FAST, and that's acceleration - something that really lacked in the 20th century compared to the 21st, which is another reason why we see more light shed on these athletes with wrongs too severe, rather than those athletes in the 1900s.