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 Ƶ, provided commentary on the emergence of the #AltGov movement—a network of federal employees using social media to challenge the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Ƶ Musk.
Sturgill’s research focuses on the intersection of education and community-based work, the relationship of religion 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 “interesting … [because] it kind of stood up a different way of governing by putting it in direct contact with people – a ‘government with the people’. Whether this [version] can take it further depends on how much of the government is left.”