Over the past several decades, scholars have explored dialogue and digital media. While this scholarship has advanced strategic communication theory, it lacks a critical focus on how marginalized groups have been written out of these theories and practices. We bring a critical lens to dialogue, employing a subaltern critique to elevate the experiences and voices of members of an activist group working on behalf of low-income, minority women. Advancing theoretical and empirical work on dialogue and social media, our study approaches activist communication and dialogue through a co-optation orientation, to consider how advocacy groups are co-opted or erased through dialogic methods entailed in dominant discourses and how these groups exert agency and resistance. While social media may not always help activists penetrate the walls upheld by powerful social actors, they offer connective and transformative possibilities.

在过去的几十年中，学者们探索了对话和数字媒体。尽管该奖学金拥有先进的战略传播理论，但对于将边缘化群体如何从这些理论和实践中写出来，却缺乏足够的关注。我们为对话提供了一个重要的视角，采用了次要的批评来提升代表低收入，少数族裔妇女工作的激进组织成员的经验和声音。推进有关对话和社交媒体的理论和实证研究，我们的研究通过选民取向来处理激进主义者的交流和对话，以考虑如何通过占主导地位的话语所采用的对话方法来选拔或消除倡导团体，以及这些团体如何发挥代理作用和能力。反抗。