Social Justice 2.0

Activism has taken an interesting step in its evolution with the arrival of social media. Perhaps the most obvious example of this is in Feminist blogosphere, perhaps the largest 2.0 community in the social justice movement.

Some examples of conceptions of social justice 2.0:

• Feminism 2.0: Read this and this (this one is particularly interesting since it was published in 2005) for more information. FYI, feminism 2.0 is also known as third-wave feminism.
• Racism 2.0 (more about a modern type of racism with no relation to social media)
• Gay 2.0 (although this is more about hooking up using social media as opposed to social justice…)
• Gender 2.0 (list of current non-cis gender identities and expressions)
• Sex 2.0 (which is about sex activism, of a kind, on the internet)

The conclusions from my search that I can draw are: social media is the primary determinant for something being labelled x 2.0. With this in mind, more thoughts will be posted in the discussion forum.