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seen the British extreme right reflect an international trend of online activism identified by Maura Conway, Ryan Scrivens and Logan Macnair. This started with the creation of websites, then led to the establishment of online forums, before moving to exploiting social media, and most recently has seen a turn to messaging apps. 2 These migrations demonstrate a commitment within the movement to take
not sound particularly exciting, but it will mark a fundamental shift in the practice of history. BORN-DIGITAL PRIMARY SOURCES One thing we can predict with some confidence is that historians will become increasingly concerned with born-digital sources. By 2040 the Internet Archive will have been archiving the web for more than four decades and it will be impossible to study the history of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries without analysing the web and social media. Libraries and archives have not yet had to deal with the ‘digital deluge’, but
activism in the past 30 years as society has entered into a post-digital age. From the late 1990s, the movement was already revealing itself as an early adopter of online tools. It has transitioned from static websites to social media and now often to messaging apps. While at one point many of these developments were seen as a novelty, they have become mundane aspects of everyday life. The tech companies that have
today’s movements? The modern social media, internet and so on have transformed some aspects of activism, but it is interesting to note that, regardless, ultimately, movements only have a real impact when people move out of the virtual world and develop a physical presence in the streets, as was seen in the 2011 ‘Arab spring’, recently in Belarus, and XR (Extinction Rebellion
campaign across the country and brought the issue of equality foremost in the minds of young voters. A major part of this success was undoubtedly due to the social media side of the Yes Equality drive. Craig Dwyer had been a staff member of GLEN since 2013. Dwyer worked with Diarmuid MacAonghusa, Director and founder of Fusio web designers and online strategists. Together, Dwyer and Fusio created a ‘pledge to vote’ Facebook page and app.23 Dwyer set about establishing what would burgeon into an impressive and vibrant social media drive. The Twitter hashtag
ended: for instance, as late as 2013, in language reminiscent of 1951, journalist John Sweeney investigated claims of ‘brainwashing’ in North Korea.4 Brainwashing is still a popular way to depict a political or ideological enemy in some contemporary journalism and social media.5 The Korean War thus sparked interest in threats to individual freedom and thought, which has continued to fascinate and horrify. But anxiety was not the only response to Korea: apathy and forgetting were creeping in even during the war. Although the generation ‘tailor-made for the Korean
Lister onwards; yet, as we know, they do leave large gaps. And, despite the social media explosion since Gentleman Jack , most of these gaps remain, and these I have aimed to fill. 7 From May 1836 to May 1838, Anne was essentially rooted at Shibden, her hopes for wider travels deferred. This has some real advantages for an editor, particularly if they live locally and know Halifax's geography and political landscape. However, with Anne now writing slightly more each day than
canvassers came from all walks of life, including a large number of heterosexual people who experienced bigotry and witnessed homophobia for the first time in their lives.8 This book explores these issues in great detail using personal stories, legal cases, newspaper reports, social media engagement and parliamentary debates. This is the story of how a social revolution in Ireland began. Notes 1 Gráinne Healy, Brian Sheehan and Noel Whelan, Ireland says Yes: The inside story of how the vote for marriage equality was won, Dublin, 2016, p. xii. 2 Ed Carty and Noel Baker
What do we really know of the origins and first spread of major monotheistic religions, once we strip away the myths and later traditions that developed? Creating God uses modern critical historical scholarship alongside archaeology to describe the times and places which saw the emergence of Mormonism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism. What was the social, economic and political world in which they began, and the framework of other contemporary religious movements in which they could flourish? What was their historical background and what was their geographical setting? Written from a secular viewpoint, the author reveals where a scholarly approach to the history of religions may diverge from the assumptions of faith, and shows the value of comparing different movements and different histories in one account. Throughout history, many individuals have believed that they were in direct contact with a divine source, receiving direction to spread a religious message. A few persuaded others and developed a following, and a small minority of such movements grew into full religions. In time, these movements developed, augmented, selected and invented their own narratives of foundation: stories about the founders’ lives and the early stages in which their religious group emerged. Modern critical scholarship helps us understand something of how a successful religion could emerge, thrive and begin the journey to become a world faith. This book presents a narrative to interest, challenge and intrigue readers interested in the beginnings of some of the most powerful ideas that have influenced human history.
, convey, and fix gender identities, after all, has become ever more potent with the growth of mass media and mass consumption in the twentieth century. In the twenty-first century, people regularly encounter images of male bodies on their hand-held devices via social media that drive engagement. Thus, the juxtaposition of image, text, and object is both powerful and personalised. As such, the measure of a man now encompasses appearance, bodies, and emotions, all aligned with masculine qualities and judged accordingly; the process has, perhaps, never been so intense or