Harambe – The Cincinnati Project

Social media mobbing diminishes the quality of public discourse

By cinciprojdevPosted on August 28, 2016July 11, 2019Posted in BlogTagged #LoveForLeslieJ, Fox 19 Cincinnati, Gabby Douglas, Harambe, Jeff Blevins, Kara Sewell, Leslie Jones, social disparity, social justice, social media mobbing, The Cincinnati Project Scholars, The Cincinnati Zoo

Social media mobbing diminishes the quality of public discourse By Jeff Blevins In July, I wrote about social disparity and social media, using an example of how groups of people flocked online to attack The Cincinnati Zoo when it killed Harambe, a silverback gorilla, to save the life of a young boy who fell into its […]

Social media and social justice movements

By cinciprojdevPosted on July 25, 2016July 11, 2019Posted in BlogTagged Alton Sterling, Black Lives Matter Cincinnati, Harambe, Jeff Blevins, Michael Brown, Philando Castille, Sam Dubose, social justice, social media, The Cincinnati Project, The Cincinnati Zoo, The Irate 8, Walt Disney World

Social media and social justice movements By Jeff Blevins Today, everyone can be a storyteller. Social media and mobile streaming applications have the potential to change the relationship between news media and the public in significant ways, as virtually everyone now has the ability to document and live stream events to a global audience. To say […]

Reflections on the 2020 Symposium

My Journey as a Community Writing Scholar

Symposium Encourages Graduate Student Researchers

Reflections on Past Symposia

Undergraduate Students Engage Community-Oriented Policing