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Over the past few years, the idea of a person, brand, or even show being \u201ccancelled\u201d has become a polarizing topic of debate. \u201cCancelled\u201d refers…<\/p>\n
Over the past few years, the idea of a person, brand, or even show being \u201ccancelled\u201d has become a polarizing topic of debate. \u201cCancelled\u201d refers to the public backlash fueled by social media to culturally block a person, company or thing that has been deemed of committing wrongdoing from having a public platform. Calls to \u201ccancel\u201d seek to end a person\u2019s career and revoke the cultural impact of a person or brand via public pressure through multiple forms of social media. Some view \u201ccancel culture\u201d as an important way of publicly calling for accountability, and many view it as an important social justice tool. A method of using collective action to combat some of the enormous power imbalances that exist between public figures who have access to large audiences and the people and communities their words and actions may harm. Others see \u201ccancel culture\u201d as a form of social media mob rule. Some Republican politicians in America have described \u201ccancel culture\u201d as a movement to erase history, encourage lawlessness, mute citizens and as a movement to violate the free exchange of ideas, thoughts, and speech. The idea of punishing or demoting members of society for acting in or promoting ways of thinking outside what is deemed socially normal is something we can see throughout history; however, the rise of mobile technology and broadcasting power of social media has dramatically enhanced the ability to exercise collective action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To further complicate the issue, deep fakes, video editing, and posts from 20 years ago in high school can and have all been used as reasons to call for \u201ccancelling.\u201d How do you view cancel culture? Is it an important tool of social justice, or do you see it as a new form of collective mob intimidation? Finally, as people\u2019s lives continue to become more public on social platforms and mobile technology becomes more and more integrated into our daily and private lives, how will this part of mobile culture adapt or change?<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the past few years, the idea of a person, brand, or even show being \u201ccancelled\u201d has become a polarizing topic of debate. \u201cCancelled\u201d refers…<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n