BUILDING PUBLICS USING SOCIAL MEDIA

Required: Fraser, N. (1990). Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy. Social Text, 25/26, 56–80. Recommended: Warner, M. (2002). Publics and Counterpublics. Public Culture, 14(1), 49–90.

Required: Boyd, d. (2011). Social Network Sites as Networked Publics. In A Networked Self (pp. 39–58). Routledge. Recommended: Papacharissi, Z. (2015). Affective Publics: Sentiment, Technology, and Politics. Oxford University Press. Affective News and Networked Publics. Pages 30–63.

Required: Jackson, S. J., Bailey, M., & Foucault Welles, B. (2020). #HashtagActivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice. "#GirlsLikeUs: Trans Feminist Advocacy and Community Building", MIT Press. (31 pages)

Required: Papacharissi, Z. (2015). Affective Publics: Sentiment, Technology, and Politics. Oxford University Press. Chapter 1: Present Affect. Recommended: Ahmed, S. (2014). The Cultural Politics of Emotion. Routledge. (Introduction, pp. 1–19).