Instagram as Public Pedagogy: Online Activism and the Trans Mountain Pipeline

by Carrie Karsgaard

Overview

Exploring Instagram’s public pedagogy at scale, this book uses innovative digital methods to trace and analyze how publics reinforce and resist settler colonialism as they engage with the Trans Mountain pipeline controversy online. The book traces opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline in so-called Canada, where overlapping networks of concerned citizens, Indigenous land protectors, and environmental activists have used Instagram to document pipeline construction, policing, and land degradation; teach using infographics; and express solidarity through artwork and re-shared posts. These expressions constitute a form of “public pedagogy,” where social media takes on an educative force, influencing publics whether or not they set foot in the classroom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031261817
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	05/24/2023
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment
Edition description:	2023
Pages:	277
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Carrie Karsgaard is Postdoctoral Fellow at Arizona State University, USA, and currently serves as researcher at the University of Alberta, Canada.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Instagrammed Public Pedagogy of an Environmental Controversy.- Chapter 2. Resistance to the Trans Mountain Expansion in a Settler Colonial Context.- Chapter 3. Social Media Learning: Public Pedagogy, Power, and Agency.- Chapter 4. #stoptmx: Hashtagged Issue Public Pedagogy.- Chapter 5. From Blueberry Harvesting Grounds to Urban Ports: Public Pedagogy and Place.- Chapter 6. New Views into Anti-Colonial Digital Research.- Chapter 7. Anti-Colonial Public Pedagogy and Formal Education.