SOCIAL MOVEMENTS and NEW SOCIAL MEDIA

SOCIAL MOVEMENTS and NEW SOCIAL MEDIA

1. The Facebook Effect (Kirkpatrick, 2010)

   • Columbia
   • 10 million people
   • Protesting violence/kidnapping

2. Immediate communication

   • Warn/prepare others

3. Information shared anonymously

   • eg. human rights abuses

4. reach many people simultaneously

5. people who cannot speak out get a voice

   • eg women

6. challenge news bias

7. speak out when activism is suppressed

8. The Middle East

   • Used to be limited to social elite
     • Limited by the state
       • Western ideas threaten traditions
   • 2011
     • Revolutions
     • Twitter etc