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The years between 2016-2020 saw anti-pipeline protests and demonstrations across Canada. Both throughout this period, and continuing as COVID-19 lockdowns sent people home from the blockades and strikes, overlapping networks of youth, Indigenous land protectors, and environmental activists used Instagram to document construction, policing, land degradation, and activism; teach about pipeline issues through infographics; and express solidarity through banners, artwork, and re-shared posts about contentious pipelines. These social media expressions have an educative force, constituting a form of “public pedagogy” that shapes key discourses, agencies, and relations through a popular cultural form. In this CPPR lunchtime seminar, Carrie Karsgaard will use large-scale data to trace the functioning of Instagram’s anti-pipeline public pedagogy according to affordances such as hashtags, location tags, images, and text.
About the speaker:
Carrie Karsgaard is a doctoral candidate in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta, where her research on Instagram’s public pedagogy is supported by the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship and the President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction. Carrie brings her research interests in anti- and decolonial approaches to education, climate change education, and intercultural education to her related work as an Instructor in Elementary Education at the University of Alberta and as a consultant for UNESCO in the Section for Global Citizenship and Peace Education.