Gatekeeping. (n.d.). Retrieved from
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Apply: In community development, you may end up in a gatekeeper role. For example, my assignment 1 group is charged with creating a how-to guide for running for office, and we are working with a potential candidate. He is a gatekeeper in that he controls what information about his platform he will share with his constituents. He has plans for the community he is running in, but how he presents them and the details he includes or excludes puts him in the position of gatekeeper.
Adapt: Website developers have to decide what information they are going to allow you to post on social media. For the most part, we can post what we want without consequences. But occasionally, administrators step in and remove a post that somehow violated their guidelines. In this way, they are controlling what information they allow users to share- like a form of censorship.
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