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Student Voice: How Young People Use Social Media to Engage Civically

By Rainier Harris — 2020

While some young people might not be able to vote yet, they are leveraging social media to educate themselves and their peers on social justice topics ranging from gun violence to racial justice to climate change.

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How to Revive Student Activism After a Year of Loss and Trauma

Student activists in particular have struggled with an additional test — how can they re-energize and sustain their movements after a year filled with anxiety, financial uncertainty, and a lack of in-person connection?

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Chase DiBenedetto
2021
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What Motivates Our Activism? My Activism?

An everyday, add-on benefit of fighting injustice is building trust in ourselves, exercising our moral fiber, and strengthening our moral muscles for the next decision point.

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Jonathan C. Lewis
2017
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The Psychology of Activism

Here’s what motivates someone to fight for social justice.

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Matthew Johnson
2019
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The Global Pandemic Has Spawned New Forms of Activism—and They’re Flourishing

We’ve identified nearly 100 distinct methods of non-violent action that include physical, virtual and hybrid actions.

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Erica Chenoweth, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Jeremy Pressman, Felipe G Santos, Jay Ulfelder
2020
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What We Don’t Understand About Young People’s Motivations

At the same time that we are asking young people who they want to be, we should be asking young people what kind of world they want to leave behind.

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Heather Lawford, Heather L. Ramey
2020
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