Week 11: Digital Activism and POC/Youth Environmentalism "Social Media

What I got from these articles was about who the leaders of climate change and their background story of why they choose to do the things that they do. Latinos Leading Climate Change, Meet the Teenagers Leading a Climate Change Movement, These youth of color are organizing to address climate change, Meet young activist of color who want to combat climate change and save the planet, Young Activist Offer Their Climate Demands At COP24: 'We're Fighting. where are You?', Get To Know Our Youth Delegates To The Paris Climate Talks: Jylise Smith and We Are Sunrise, are all sources that focus on how young students and people of color and Latino origin contribute to making a change when dealing with climate change. The articles were also discussing how social media can bring together social movements that can be influential in finding a solution to climate change. In the videos, it focuses on different teens who organized a protest or other peaceful methods to address the issue of climate change and come up with a solution to the issue. 


I liked the sources because it shows how our generation now is the generation for change. It is inspiring and it motivates me to want to be able to become a leader and do something that is beneficial to society. I personally have to disagree with social media being the key to social movements though because I think the problems will just become another hashtag and people will only pretend to be interested in it because it is what's trending at the moment and people do it for the clout and attention. I think for people to actually take you seriously, you come at the problem like some of these younger kids did.


Keywords: Activism- the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change.
Latinos-  a person of Latin American origin or descent, especially a man or boy.
Digital Activism- use of electronic communication technologies such as social media, e-mail, and podcasts for various forms of activism to enable faster and more effective communication
Neoliberalism- a modified form of liberalism tending to favor free-market capitalism.
Social Movements- group action.