Each winter, a layer of snow envelops various cities across the planet. While most view the snow as travel obstructions, a movement on social media has reconceptualized snowfall not only as a traffic concern but rather an indicator of poor urban design. Across Twitter, the hashtag #sneckdown is used by people in the US, as well as other countries, to create a unified public that calls for the expansion of sidewalks and other public areas by documenting sections of the street where accumulated snow is left untouched by moving vehicles. In doing so, a unique community is formed – one…
Author: Bibhushana Poudyal
Roger Chao
I am currently a PhD student in Rhetoric and Writing Studies program at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). My doctoral research emerges out of the intersections of South Asian Studies, Postcolonialism, Feminism, and Critical Digital Humanities and my project is titled "Rethinking South Asia via Critical Digital A(na)rchiving: Politics, Im/Possible Ethics, and Anti/Aesthetics."