Armchair Activism: The Expanding Terrain of Protest Action-Space in the Age of Digital Networks Part 2 Dissertation 2022 Amy Ferguson Leeds Beckett University | UK Generic terminology to what constitutes meaningful contributions within the digital protest environment, such as armchair activism and slacktivism, does not consider powers and controls within the expanding digital terrain. Superbugs and protocols are political powers, legislation and laws entwined within the digital protest landscapes; these entities shape the expanding protest action space within digital networks by restricting the freedom of information. Forcing activists to either digitally camouflage themselves through encryptions and unregulated platforms or forced into the precarious physical protest terrain. Contributions that navigate through these digital warzones of political superbugs and technological protocols create strong spatial relations of the digital actor versus internet governance. If totalitarian forces remove these digital havens of encryption and protected identities, activists are driven into the urban fabric of the protest terrain. Outmaneuvered and overpowered, to remain in play, the physical actor must create new political imagines to create bodiless frontline confrontation. Broken down into short essays, this thesis will demonstrate how political activism drives a multitude of architectural creativity and revolutionary innovations disobeying standard definitions of design within protest-action spaces. Tutor(s) Doreen Bernath