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 recent article in The Guardian, Amanda Sturgill, associate professor of journalism at Elon University, 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 Elon 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.”