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Sulafa Zidani
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What’s so social about social media anyway | personal account
I see I’m in good company ♥️
May 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Reposted by Sulafa Zidani
The average American has three friends
May 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Activists don’t let that stop them. In our interviews with them, they shared the creative textual and visual maneuvering tactics they use: from creative emoji usage to chopping up words.. while this does not tear down layered surveillance, activists use these tactics to gain agency over narrative
April 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
What we conceptualize as “layered surveillance” are the compounding structures that simultaneously overlay Palestinian speech: social media companies’ surveillance, the colonial Occupation, the authoritarian gov, the workplace, and familial or societal networks. Check out our paper for more
April 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reposted by Sulafa Zidani
@zidani.bsky.social examines a dataset of tweets that used the hashtag #Tweet_Like_Its_Free during the 2021 Unity Intifada. She notes that “tweeting, as a practice in digital civic imagination, is rehearsing for liberation.”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tweet Like It’s Free: Civic Imagination in the 2021 Palestinian Unity Intifada
In June 2021, in the midst of the Palestinian Unity Intifada, Twitter users took to the platform to imagine a desired future in which Israel’s apartheid occupation and barriers fragmenting Palestin...
www.tandfonline.com
November 26, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Thank you 🌱☀️
November 25, 2024 at 6:00 AM
Omg cool! Did not know about starter packs
November 21, 2024 at 2:05 AM
#alttext #tl;dr my new undergraduate seminar in communication studies at Northwestern University titled Going Viral examines the complex interplay between media, virality, visibility, economy, and power on the internet.
November 19, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Thank you!
November 19, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Is there no #alttext option on BlueSky? I couldn’t find it!
November 19, 2024 at 8:29 PM