Animal Rights

The sounds of torture: Ssoyoung's Animal cruelty ASMR on Youtube

Article

Melanie Ballin

14/01/2021

14 minutes to read

Animal cruelty is forbidden by YouTube's community rules, and yet Ssoyoung is getting away with it for the sake of money and advertisement.

How FarmVille 2 Celebrates Capitalism and Animal Exploitation

Article

Luiza Dubicka

27/11/2020

14 minutes to read

FarmVille 2 draws heavily on cultural scripts which normalise the exploitation of animals, thus celebrating capitalism. Through a speciesist representation of human-nonhuman animal relations, FarmVille 2 perpetuates oppressive models of practice.

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Genesis Butler’s Online and Offline Animal Rights Activist Movement

Article

Luiza Dubicka

10/10/2020

12 minutes to read

Genesis Butler, a young animal rights activist, uses her digital skills to bring about change in the offline world. But what is the relation between online and offline activism? And is it really slacktivism?

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Wakker Dier: animal rights activism in the Netherlands

Article

Claudia Gerards

26/11/2019

17 minutes to read

Some meat comes from animals that had a terrible life. In protest, organization Wakker Dier went viral with a campaign in which they followed supermarket home delivery trucks. But how did they achieve virality?