This Emerging Citizens game encourages players to engage with culturally and politically relevant topics while focusing on a specific 21st digital modality (Hashtags).
Hashtag You’re It is a twitter based bluffing game where players read real tweets with hidden hashtags, submit their own hashtag to fool other players, and then attempt to select the real hashtag themselves without getting fooled by others. Minimum two players.
Students will:
Create and craft interesting and rhetorically purposeful hashtags
Learn how to advocate for issues and causes through social media
Think Critically about twitter campaigns
Analyze what makes hashtags effective and meaningful
Reflect on the role of hashtag activism in spreading awareness, engagement and participation
tag: media literacy