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The Role Social Media Plays In Social Justice Movements, A UWM Professor Explains

stock.adobe.com Videos of police brutality on social media can elicit strong emotions but don t often change minds, says UW-Milwaukee professor Marc Tasman. It’s been almost one year since a video first surfaced of a Minneapolis Police Officer suffocating George Floyd and eventually murdering him. The video led to historic protests against police brutality and a year of calls for increased accountability for police. This wasn’t the first video of police violence that has gone viral on the internet and more, like the shooting of Jacob Blake, have been shared in the year since showing that social media has become intertwined with the movement for racial justice.

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