Obama takes issue with 'call-out culture', says it's not activism
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A new term that is slowly catching on: "cancel culture":
It tends to refer to behaviour that plays out mostly on the Internet when someone has said or done something to which others object. That person is then condemned in a flurry of social media posts. Such people are often referred to as "cancelled", a way of saying that many others are fed up with them and will have no more to do with them.
"If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far,"
Relate to the recent condo resident incident where netizens engaged in doxxing and 30,000 even signed an online petition to get his employer JP Morgan to fire him....
Relate to issues about online vitriol, online vigilantism and ungracious behaviour....
Qn: How effective is social media as a tool in bringing about change in society? (RV Prelim 2019)
A new term that is slowly catching on: "cancel culture":
It tends to refer to behaviour that plays out mostly on the Internet when someone has said or done something to which others object. That person is then condemned in a flurry of social media posts. Such people are often referred to as "cancelled", a way of saying that many others are fed up with them and will have no more to do with them.
"If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far,"
Relate to the recent condo resident incident where netizens engaged in doxxing and 30,000 even signed an online petition to get his employer JP Morgan to fire him....
Relate to issues about online vitriol, online vigilantism and ungracious behaviour....
Qn: How effective is social media as a tool in bringing about change in society? (RV Prelim 2019)
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