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How young Native Americans built and sustained the #NoDAPL movement

"We need people to not only see our side of things and to have our story told, but for us to be the ones to tell it."

The story of how Native Americans gained national attention of their protest of the Dakota Access pipeline is largely attributed to social media. People were able learn about the protest and the continuing difficulties with land preservation thanks to platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Youtube, Tumblr, and many others.

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How do I find my niche?

Last fall at Arizona State University, I took the Multimedia Journalism course or JMC305 at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. It was a great course and I really enjoyed the blunt but honest nature of my professor Joseph Camporeale. However, I had a lot of difficulty determining a niche that I could focus my work on for the course. This had a lot to do with my struggles in intersectionality. I have so many interests that I found it was difficult to stick to one. My classmates seemed to have it all figured it out. For example, five students focused their niche on fashion. Two of the fashion niche students even had their own side businesses going so that their work in the class would be meaningful. After the first class, I felt I had already fallen behind. Marketing myself on social media seemed to bring on a feeling of existentialism. Like my classmates, I also had a deep appreciation for fashion. But I honestly do not feel like I am an expert. If I made fashion my niche, would it be a genuine pursuit of who I am. Again, fashion is not my only interest. Is marketing yourself on social media a ‘fake it till you make it’ sort of thing? Why does this make me so uncomfortable?

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Interesting troll story: Fans have speculated that Youtuber PewDiePie trolled himself for this hilarious and amusing story. Great idea for a video but I really hope it’s not true. I like to imagine there’s a real Falcon Lover out there 360 no-scoping, gaining subs through the comment section of PewDiePie’s videos. 

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Intersectionality: when social identities overlap. Often times, people aren’t just a part of one demographic. Selena was 23 years old, Mexican-American, and female. Her difficulties with appealing to a specific audience while remaining genuine to all parts of herself are an all too common problem many struggle with. This problem has become especially apparent since the rise of social media. It feels like there is a push to label yourself as just one thing.

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trolling has become the main tool of the alt-right, an Internet-grown reactionary movement that works for men's rights and against immigration and may have used the computer from Weird Science to fabricate Donald Trump. Not only does Trump share their attitudes, but he's got mad trolling skills: he doxxed Republican primary opponent Senator Lindsey Graham by giving out his cell-phone number on TV and indirectly got his Twitter followers to attack GOP political strategist Cheri Jacobus so severely that her lawyers sent him a cease-and-desist order.

Joel Stein, Time Magazine “How Trolls are Ruining the Internet”

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The Outdoor Apparel Industry Is Fighting for Public Lands

How REI and Patagonia are fighting the Trump administration to protect the environment.

Patagonia founder uses his platform to raise awareness that President Donald Trump plans to review national monuments and reduce or eliminate their protections under the 1906 Antiquities Act. This article difficulties with protecting land from mining, logging, and development companies who often favor money over the preservation of land.