2. Give your thoughts on the following questions:

• All three articles talk about online political resistance. How is political resistance enacted online? What possibilities do online environments offer for political resistance that offline cannot? Are there limits to political resistance online?
• Andi Schwartz argues that “femmes politicize online space by using blogs as tools to engage in identity production, community building, and political theorizing” (2). This in turn creates what Fraser (qtd by Schwartz) calls “counter publics,” that is, “parallel discursive arenas where members of subordinated social groups invent and circulate counterdiscourses, which in turn permit them to formulate oppositional interpretations of their identities, interests, and needs.” Think about your own travels online. Have you seen “counterpublic” spaces be created? For what purposes? What effect do they have?
• Online activism is sometimes critiqued as “hashtag activism” or “slacktivism,” while selfies are seen by some as narcissistic. How do our authors this week respond to these claims? What are your thoughts?

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