June 6, 2017
Blog Response: "Electronic Disturbance: An Interview"
Dominguez
discusses how Electronic Disturbance Theater and FloodNet were used as forms of
online protesting in the 1990s. I thought it was interesting reading about this
early form of online civil disobedience. The internet now is so expansive that
it makes online protests in the past look silly. Today, cultural resistance
through social media can be extremely powerful because millions of people use
it and have access. Just like Dominguez mentions, small local actions can
become large global actions. I agree with his statement to an extent. Now that
the internet has a stronger presence, what happens when there's too many large
global actions? Do social movements get the attention that they deserve if
there's other issues that people are concerned about? How does one issue break
out from the rest?
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