The Politics of Twitter and BTS Gets Conscripted

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We're recapping objectively the best month of the year: October! Tune in to hear us talk about the books we read, shows we watched, and albums we listened to as well Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter and boyband BTS' enlistment in the South Korean army.

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Reading

• The Long Road Home: Blackness and Belonging by Debra Thomspon
• Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Watching

• The Sex Lives of College Girls on HBO
• Bluey on Disney+

Listening

• The Loneliest Time - Carly Rae Jepsen
• Midnights - Taylor Swift

Politics

• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/technology/elon-musk-twitter-deal-complete.html
• https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-he-will-be-twitter-ceo-2022-10-31/
• https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/hashtag-activism-hashtag10-twitter-trends-dresslik/
• https://scholars.org/sites/scholars/files/ssn-basic-facts-buente-on-activism-and-twitter.pdf
• https://abcnews.go.com/Business/twitter-turns-15-back-platform-changed-lives/story?id=75804702
• https://www.businessinsider.com/social-media-activism-facebook-twitter-youtube-power-2019-12
• https://metoomvmt.org/
• https://forge.medium.com/how-to-use-twitter-to-engage-in-a-movement-b42272cf99e5
• https://time.com/6172234/twitter-social-movement-organizers-elon-musk/

Pop Culture

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTS
• https://time.com/5912998/bts-army/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/world/asia/bts-military-south-korea-enlist.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoo_Seung-jun
• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/korean-pop-group-bts-members-will-perform-mandatory-military-service-in-south-korea
• https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/btss-conscription-case-for-exempting-south-korean-band-from-military-service-8218707/
• https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ikrd/bts-hiatus-mandatory-military-service
• https://impakter.com/south-korean-economy-braces-for-loss-as-boy-band-bts-pauses-music-for-military/#:~:text=South%20Korea%20stands%20to%20lose,to%20the%20South%20Korean%20economy.%E2%80%9D
• https://www.insider.com/trevor-noah-bts-enlisting-south-korea-army-unstoppable-2022-10
• https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bts-perform-mandatory-military-service-south-korea-1234613240/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Ali#Draft_resistance