Tessel in Cyberspace — Season 1, Episode 1: Clout Chaser or Internethero?
Documentary • 13 min • 1 season, 4 episodes
Episode synopsis
In this first episode, Tessel examines the effectiveness of cyberspace as a battleground for social activism and discusses the criticism of online actions. Tessel interviews hashtag activists from Kick Out Zwarte Piet, BLM and gender expression coach on TikTok and Instagram to understand why they speak out online.
About Tessel in Cyberspace
Today's activists are on a virtual frontline. Some of the biggest social movements of recent decades started as hashtags. #BlackLivesMatter got millions of people worldwide to go and protest and #MeToo put Harvey Weinstein behind bars. Writer and feminist Tessel ten Zweege (25) also ventures into the virtual landscape of cyberactivism, in which she particularly speaks out for women's rights. Yet she increasingly wonders how effective cyberspace is as a battleground for her social activism. In the 3Lab: Tessel in Cyberspace she investigates how effective so-called hashtag activism actually is.