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11/30: Crafting the Post/er Project
Recall what we learned from Cushman’s article “Rhetorician as Agent of Social Change” last class; Cushman’s work focuses on the power of “day-to-day interactions” (12) in activism. She understand the acts of helping individuals on writing for job and apartment applications as social activism because these seemingly small gestures impact people’s lives in significant ways. Building on Cushman’s understanding of day-to-day interactions, I’d like to hear from you about what kind of specific advocacy work your post/er can do. We’ll look at Jane Hu’s article “The Second Act of Social Media Activism,” in which the author considers “the link between activism, the Internet, and material action.” Hu introduces the term…