The concepts that I decided to use is net neutrality, social activism, and disability and accessibility. The connection between social activism and net neutrality is one needs the internet to pass its message worldwide and at the same time net neutrality can slow down the message or block the message due to bias. Without the interweb to help the message is lost to an information centering withholding it prisoner. And then falls the accessibility to those who use the internet or other media to understand the world around them. Some of the younger generations rely on the internet for important information such as protests and for those who rely on other media such as television it feels the same squeeze of un-airing, blocking, covering the protests. The images reflect that message there are thin lines connecting the BLM protest to the internet and the young generation. And two ends are about to be cut due to large corporations slowing or not allowing information. The young people unaware of this procedure to take this selfie. The mic that this man is holding is silenced by the cut of net neutrality. The fourth image is the elder group that is looking in another direction again unaware of the situation behind. unable to connect to the media that there is a movement that needs to be heard. I chose two different generations one elder because some are unable to understand or use the internet to see the activism online and the younger generations unwilling to make it easier for them to use it. These images connected to the message reaching an audience that is unfortunately cut.
Citations
Bonilla, Yarimar, and Rosa Johnathan. "#Fergurson: Digital protest, hashtag, ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States, "Ameican Ethnologist Journal of American Ethnological Society. 2015. PDF. https://blogs.umass.edu/jdrosa/files/2015/01/Bonilla-Rosa-2015-Ferguson.pdf
Bridy, Annemarie, Remediating Social Media: A Layer-Conscious Approach (May 24, 2018). Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, Vol. 24, 193-228 (2018), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3154117
Lieberman, Mark. "Technology can help address accessibility challenges, but many say it's an incomplete solution," https://www.insidehighered.com. 8 May 2018.
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