signal boosting
Enhancing broadcast strength
Signal boosting is amplifying or spreading someone else's message to reach a wider audience, especially on social media.
The term comes from telecommunications, where boosting strengthens a weak signal.
Online, it typically means resharing content from voices that might otherwise go unheard: Signal boosting this fundraiser for my friend's medical bills.
The practice is associated with activism and mutual aid.
- megaphonePortable voice amplifier
- activismDirect effort for reform
- amplifierSignal-strengthening electronic device
- broadcastTransmitted media signal
- social mediaOnline content-sharing platforms
promotion · allyship · publicity · disseminate · word of mouth · reposting · retweeting · pass it on · spread the word · transmitter · virality · solidarity · mutual aid · representation · grassroots organizing · marginalized voices · lift up · loudspeaker
- Wireless Networking
- radio termsbroadcasting, transmitting, receiving, tuning, station ID
- telecomwireless, cellular, telecommunications, carriers, telephone
signal boostinginterference
Unwelcome involvement in affairs
signal degradation · signal jamming · jamming · muffling · filtering out
signal boostingsilencing
Stopping noise or dissent
censorship · suppression · muting · deplatforming · shadowbanning
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