Zusammenfassung der Ressource
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS and NEW SOCIAL MEDIA
- The Facebook Effect (Kirkpatrick, 2010)
- Columbia
- 10 million people
- Protesting violence/kidnapping
- Immediate communication
- Warn/prepare others
- Information shared anonymously
- eg. human rights abuses
- reach many people simultaneously
- people who cannot speak out get a voice
- eg women
- challenge news bias
- speak out when activism is suppressed
- The Middle East
- Used to be limited to social elite
- Limited by the state
- Western ideas threaten traditions
- 2011
- Revolutions
- Twitter etc