In the last decade, there has been tremendous attention by scholars, activists and practitioners on how media help in shrinking space, particularly public space. The increasing influence of social media in contemporary global political and environmental engagement has been overwhelming. From President Trump’s tweets to Black Lives Matter’s use of social media in organizing across the United States, attention is being focused on the impact of social media on the daily-lived experiences of many citizens across the world. This course will address the growing influence of social media on how activists and the general pubic engage with the state on issues of the environment, human rights and global politics. The course will focus on how social media, over the years, have transformed from being a space for socially engaging with friends and acquaintances to a space for public discourse of politics, the economy and the many challenges of governance. The course will focus specifically on how the social media space has become a space where activists, scholars and citizens make demands from and of the state. This course will raise key philosophical and analytical questions regarding the interconnectedness of social media use to the questions of development and environmental practices in Africa, Latin America, Asia, the United States and other centers of global power in shaping political and social imaginaries of citizenship across time and space.