{"id":69,"date":"2012-03-25T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/?p=69"},"modified":"2012-03-25T20:13:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T03:13:09","slug":"activism-or-slacktivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/2012\/03\/25\/activism-or-slacktivism\/","title":{"rendered":"Activism or slacktivism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another blog on an article written by Henry Jenkins. (Jenkins, a professor of communication, journalism, and cinematic arts at USC, is a self proclaimed ACA fan, which he describes as a part fan, part academic. He has written about a dozen books on media and culture. For his complete bio on himself, see his website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryjenkins.org\/aboutme.html\">http:\/\/www.henryjenkins.org\/aboutme.html<\/a>) I like his style, so I decided to look to him when this Kony 2012 thing came out.\u00a0 Here it is if you haven\u2019t watched it, you should:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"KONY 2012\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y4MnpzG5Sqc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I first heard about this on Facebook. The Kony video was going rampant and people were changing their profile pictures. The critics started immediately, with the quips that people were posting pictures that said \u201cI watched a 30 minuet move, and now I\u2019m a social activist\u201d Jenkins in his article \u201c<a title=\"Why youth are drawn to Invisible Children\" href=\"http:\/\/henryjenkins.org\/2012\/03\/why_youth_are_drawn_to_invisib.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why youth are drawn to Invisible Children: Prefiguring Kony 2012<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 refers to this as slacktivism.\u00a0 Jenkins recognizes this point, but he also sees the whole Kony 2012 explosion in a different way.\u00a0 He sees is as a way that the youth can get socially active.\u00a0 It has been a concern for many years that the youth do not seem at all interested in politics, and society as a whole would benefit if the youth would educate themselves and go out and vote.\u00a0 Jenkins sees this he recognizes that \u201ctalking to members of Invisible Children shows how previous IC movies indeed played important roles in helping young people become socially active, though not always in clear, immediate ways.\u201d\u00a0 I definitely agree that videos like this could launch youth into action, I just fear that people will blindly follow the one side of the story they are being feed.\u00a0 I mean, there are sob stories like this around the world, but also in the slums of the United States.\u00a0 I agree that Kony is a terrible human being, and something should be done, but there are so many more stories just like this around the world.\u00a0 I personally think that that our efforts should be more toward empowering the people of these nations.\u00a0 Educating them and giving them the ability to defend themselves will do the whole world more good than killing Kony, because his death will only leave an opening for another, just as horrible, leader to take his place.<\/p>\n<p>I fear however that the recent news of one of the co-founders getting into legal trouble will squash the possibilities of the Kony movement (check out this <a title=\"Jason Russell arrested \" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/03\/16\/jason-russell-arrested-invisible-children-kony_n_1354455.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post article<\/a>, if you don\u2019t know what I am talking about).\u00a0 All of the people who I knew had supported the movement have become eerily quiet on the topic recently.\u00a0 It makes me wonder if this fad would have died out on it\u2019s own anyways, or if it would have taken root.\u00a0 The video cardinally had a large effect on those who watched it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another blog on an article written by Henry Jenkins. (Jenkins, a professor of communication, journalism, and cinematic arts at USC, is a self proclaimed ACA fan, which he describes as a part fan, part academic. He has written about a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/2012\/03\/25\/activism-or-slacktivism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":12,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"kdean","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/author\/kdean\/"},"qubely_comment":12,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/katied\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Another blog on an article written by Henry Jenkins. 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