#NoDAPL: Social media, empowerment, and civic participation at standing rock
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The struggle for environmental and social justice within American Indian communities is one that has been ongoing since the beginning of United States history, but the main catalyst to effect change and to promote and disperse the American Indian narrative has emerged through the power of social media in today's hyperconnected society.This article examines the power of social media to effect change, as well as a hyperconnected society's ability to empower historically disadvantaged groups that have often been misrepresented within traditional media outlets.The historic movement occurring at Standing Rock, North Dakota, and the #NoDAPL protests illustrates the capacity of social media to galvanize individuals to become changemakers as well as create a vast support network within a population that might otherwise remain uninformed or unaware of media misrepresentations.The role of libraries as support systems within communities and the responsibility of libraries to provide unbiased and freely available information within a hyperconnected society are also discussed.
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The Women of Standing Rock movement arose in the United States within the context of the Dakota Access Pipeline social movement.
“The Women of Standing Rock (WSR) movement arose in the United States within the context of the Dakota Access Pipeline social movement-DAPL.”
From Sacred Sites Protection and Indigenous Women’s Activism: Empowering Grassroots Social Movements to Influence Public Policy. A Look into the “Women of Standing Rock” and “Idle No More” Indigenous Movements (2020) · cites this paper as Johnson 2017
The “Water Protectors and the Struggle against DAPL” section describes the Standing Rock protest movement in North Dakota and says LaDonna Brave Bull Allard established a camp to resist the pipeline. It does not identify a distinct Women of Standing Rock movement or say that it arose within #NoDAPL; that part of the claim is unsupported. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredWomen, following the example of Lakota historian and activist LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, rose as protectors of the waters and the environment as an inherent aspect of Native American traditions and culture.
“Women, following the example of Lakota historian and activist LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, rose as protectors of the waters and the environment as an inherent aspect of Native American traditions and culture (Johnson 2017).”
From Sacred Sites Protection and Indigenous Women’s Activism: Empowering Grassroots Social Movements to Influence Public Policy. A Look into the “Women of Standing Rock” and “Idle No More” Indigenous Movements (2020) · cites this paper as Johnson 2017
The Introduction links environmental protection to Indigenous teachings, and “Water Protectors and the Struggle against DAPL” says LaDonna Brave Bull Allard established a camp for cultural preservation and resistance while participants worked to protect water and sacred sites. The paper does not say that women collectively followed her example as protectors, nor does it identify her as a historian. (LLM, conf=0.86)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredModern technologies and social media provide democratic means for grassroots social movements to be heard and empowered.
“Modern technologies and social media provide democratic means for grassroots social movements to be heard and empowered.”
INM has grown into an international grassroots social movement that advances Indigenous sovereignty and protection of the environment and Indigenous sacred land, similar to the DAPL social movement.
“It has grown into an international grassroots social movement that brings forth similar claims to those of the DAPL social movement-that is, fostering Indigenous sovereignty, and protecting the environment and Indigenous sacred land (Johnson 2017;Nicolescu 2018).”
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““E-mail, television, radio, and print have long managed to open up windows into the experience of social movements, but the dialogicality and temporality of Twitter creates a unique feeling of direct participation” (Bonilla and Rosa 2015, 7).”
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- Johnson, H.
- Corresponding author
- Johnson, Hayley
- ORCID
- Johnson, Hayley
- Venue
- Library Trends
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2017
- Volume
- 66
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 155-175
- ISSN
- 0024-2594 (ISSN-L)
- 1559-0682
- OpenAlex
- W2788767191
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 7.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Library trends (publishedVersion)
- Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) (submittedVersion)
- Civil War Book Review (submittedVersion)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Web and Library Services
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Library Science and Administration
- Keywords
- #NoDAPL, Standing Rock protests, social media, citizen participation, empowerment, American Indian communities, environmental justice, social justice, media representation, libraries, access to information
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