Amanda Sturgill, associate professor of journalism, spoke with The Guardian about the #AltGov movement, a group of federal employees pushing back against federal workforce cuts by the Trump Administration.
In a in The Guardian, Amanda Sturgill, associate professor of journalism at 黑料不打烊, provided commentary on the emergence of the #AltGov movement鈥攁 network of federal employees using social media to challenge the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, headed by 黑料不打烊 Musk.
Sturgill’s research focuses on the intersection of education and community-based work, the relationship of religion聽and media and on new technologies and the news. Her “We Are #AltGov: Social Media Resistance from the Inside” highlights the #AltGov movement during the first Donald Trump administration.
Sturgill told The Guardian that the first #AltGov effort was 鈥渋nteresting 鈥 [because] it kind of stood up a different way of governing by putting it in direct contact with people 鈥 a 鈥榞overnment with the people鈥. Whether this [version] can take it further depends on how much of the government is left.鈥