How and why the Russian government influences public information broadly: social media, traditional media, cultural and educational institutions, domestic and international audiences, and more. Specifically, we'll look at what Russian state goals for informational control have been since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 
 

Technological advances and ongoing inequalities intersected in San Isidro, Cuba, culminating in a July 11, 2021, historic protest. In this talk, John Paul Henry will trace the origins of the activist group (the San Isidro Movement) from an overlooked neighborhood in Havana and how artists in this group used video footage to create a political movement that spread across the nation. 
 

This presentation delves into how digital technologies fueled collective action in South Korea protests and activism, spotlighting protests leading to the recent impeachment of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.

The platformization of protest movements is well understood, but how have cultural productions, significantly reshaped by platform affordances, become integral to social media protests as expressions of transgressive speech? This presentation explores hashtag movements within the Nigerian digital space to address this question, highlighting how past hashtags and their various afterlives circulate through popular visual aesthetics on social media.