Name: Tiffany Palapo

Social Justice Group: Technology: Online Radicalization

Date of Fieldwork: March 1, 2023

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Cloee Cooper, Senior Research Analyst of Political Research Association

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?:

At 2:00pm on March 1st, my group mates and I got on a zoom meeting with Cloee Cooper. Cloee Cooper is a Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Association, a news website.

During our interview, we talked about Cloee’s experiences with interviewing extremists and what changes she hopes to make when publishing articles. She shared her thoughts about what the internet is doing both good and bad. We also talked to her about the future of radicalization, and she thinks that it will always exist, but her hopes are that with more publicity on the issue, awareness can be spread and it will simmer down. When we asked more questions about far-right activists though, she said she was growing uncomfortable with the constant talking about the topic so we ended our interview soon after.