How Social Media Shapes Our Political Memory

How many of the young people are hooked on their mobile phones, social networks and the Internet? If we talk about those between 14 and 19 years old, 20.5 per cent consider that they have this addiction, according to a report by the Ministry of Health of 2023. A very high percentage of which, if anything can be said, is that we were warned. Not only because of what common sense says and what everyone can conclude from their own experience, or th…

How Social Media Shapes Our Political Memory

With Donald Trump’s return to the White House, I’ve been reminded of a viral social media moment from just before his first rise to power in 2016. After waiting in line to vote that year, nearly 12,000 people joined a second queue, at a cemetery in upstate New York, to visit the grave of famed women’s suffragist Susan B. Anthony and place their “I Voted” stickers on her headstone. The event keyed into a recurring theme of women’s rights in Clint…