Chapter 1. LaunchPad for Media and Culture 11e
The Media and Social Activism
Author Name:
Richard Campbell
Activity Objective:
Students will interview their peers to gather information on, and then analyze the effects of, social media and traditional media on the social activism surrounding the gun debate following the Parkland school shooting.
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Interview Questions
Interview 10–12 fellow students to find out, anecdotally, about their feelings on how new social media and “old” legacy media, such as TV and radio, helped and/or hurt social activism around the gun debate after the Parkland, Florida, shooting in early 2018. Ask your interview subjects these questions (and add one or two of your own). Record their responses in the boxes below each question.
Use the space below to answer the following question.
What are your views on student activism around the gun debate after the Parkland shooting? Were they more negative than positive or more positive than negative?
What do you think of the various media strategies students used to advance their concerns about gun control and safer schools?
Did the student social activism change your views in any way toward guns and gun control? Explain.
How would you use social media to advance a cause you care about? Use an example.
Student Responses
Use the space below to answer the following question.
Take a look at your classmates’ responses to the questions you asked. Do you agree or disagree with their responses? Why? Answer in a paragraph in the box below.