People talk a lot about "cancel culture", but nobody seems to agree on what it is. I certainly don't know. But I aim to find out. Over the course of this project, I will investigate what cancel culture is and means. I also plan to look at a few sub-questions:
   -  Is there a benefit to cancel culture?
   -  Is it actually true that you "can't say anything anymore" and that "people don't know how to          take a joke"?
   -  How does cancel culture affect our current political factionalism?
I plan to use academic articles about cancel culture (utilizing Academic Search Premier, from EBSCO) as well as video and audio sources of testimonies from subjects of cancellation to answer these questions. For example, one prospective source is the article "Enmity and argumentative strategies for legitimizing cancel culture" by Torben Bech Dyrberg, which contains useful definitions of key terms, albeit with a decided critical slant. Of course, I can't only use critical sources, which is why another possible source is "Impeachment, Free Speech, and the Cancel Culture Narrative" by Heidi Kitrosser, which takes a more charitable view of cancellation as a force for accountability. Of course, these won't be the only sources I use, but they're representative of the kinds of articles I'm looking for in the pursuit of these answers.