Karsgaard, Carrie. 2023. Instagram as Public Pedagogy: Online Activism and the Trans Mountain Pipeline. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. XVII, 277 pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26182-4

Abstract

This book provides a comparative analysis of the public pedagogy of Instagram in the social networking system, which today is not only one of the leading channels whose content is actively consumed by young people, but also a platform where content from various information and communication environments is posted and distributed. In this context, modern research into Instagram public pedagogy is aimed primarily at studying the phenomena of civic and social activity, communication barriers and ways to overcome them. The book provides examples of various social and humanities studies that occupy the study of public pedagogy, as well as the influence of social networks and virtual reality on behavior and perception of various events. In this book, the political science research problem lies in the formation of digital political pedagogy and the pedagogical contradiction of applying traditional theoretical approaches to the formation of public attitudes in the new environment of virtual social networks. Knowledge of the peculiarities of the formation of civil and political attitudes on Instagram and other social networks will allow us to develop effective methods for diagnosing and leveling the influence of social networks.

Keywords

• visual political methodology
• political ecojustice
• digital political science
• public pedagogy
• political Instagram
• activism