Conclusion

The book has addressed student activism, both in-person and social media activism, and the reflections of social media activists and how students use and respond to social media. However, it has shifted somewhat in the course of the study to place greater emphasis on the development of political capabilities in and through both in-person and social media actions. Still, the title does not quite reflect the focus on the foregrounding of political capabilities and the backgrounding of social media (which nonetheless still has a role to play in activism as the thesis shows). The main focus of the study, thus, is the development of political capabilities for a transformed university through student activism.