Abstract
This special issue, curated by Emma Baulch, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, and Amelia Johns, marks the end of the first decade of WhatsApp’s existence and offers a collection of essays on the importance of this technology in everyday life. Considering the rapid uptake and ubiquity of WhatsApp in places beyond the Anglophone world, including Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia, and Spain, the seven papers interrogate the opportunities and challenges that the app affords to activists and ordinary users through its main features: end-to-end encryption, groups, and the forward function.
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Rather than create independent blog posts for the rest of this issue here is the rest of it. All very interesting.
The banality of WhatsApp: On the everyday politics of backstage activism in Mexico and Spain
Emiliano Treré
Emiliano Treré
Enter the WhatsApper: Reinventing digital activism at the time of chat apps
Stefania Milan, Sérgio Barbosa
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