A powerpoint presentation discussing social media and its impacts and relevance to social movements and political movements.

1. SOCIAL MEDIA,
SOCIAL
MOVEMENTS AND
POLITICAL
REVOLUTION
Week 9

3. “the convergence of streets and
networks”
“After this revelatory
year, dense with threats
and promises from a
completely new global
movement, global
governance – painfully
aware of the great
threat that such
autonomous horizontal
communication poses
to its control – is
vigorously attacking
digital freedoms”
(Griziotti,2012)

4. Digital Capitalism
Digital Control

5. Open Particpation

6. Clash of the Capitalisms

7. Dominant Power

8. Anonymous

9. Why social media is reinventing
activism
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„Feel good clicking rather than make a change‟
– Kessler
„Slacktivism‟: The act of participating in
obviously pointless activities as an expedient
alternative to actually expending effort to fix a
problem‟

11. Example of poor activism Kessler
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Red Cross: 208,500 „likes‟ on FB
Online donations accounted for 3.6% (private
donations)

12. This is Shawn Ahmed

13. Barack Obama
“ If the internet didn‟t exist, Barack Obama
would not be president of the united states”
- Ben Rattray

15. More loose Ties lead to more
activists
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“ You‟re not going to get everyone who liked
your Facebook page to volunteer their
summer, building schools and helping out, but
its still all part of that journey.” – Craig
Kieldburger
“Social media opens the megaphone so much
wider… when you finally look at that spectrum,
we‟ve got more people who are finally making
a journey.” – Craig Kieldburger

16. Media Commons
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What is Media Commons?
Projects
Twitter

17. The New Everyday
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What is The New Everyday?
How does it work?
What is a cluster?

18. Forums
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What do you guys think are the benefits and
the negatives of writing a forum or being
involved with a forum website such as The
New Everyday?

19. Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado
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Forums/social
media do in fact put
forward important
stories that does not
reach the main
news stations
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Responses from
users of The New
Everyday

20. Syrian video
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https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=14151
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