Impact Of Digital Communication On Soical Movements Flashcards
Kirkpatrick
Book The Facebook Effects focuses on how Facebook has revolutionised the way the world uses the internet . His study explores how Facebook has spread around the globe and touches on how it creates surprising effects such as when it has been used as an instrumental part of political protests from Colombia and Iran . Also looks at how 19 year old Harvard student, Mark Zuckerberg , has transformed the internet and even the way that communication, marketing , politics and business is occurring is not only the US but in a global scale - Facebook effect
Egypt case study - Ghonim - Areeba Areeba
Examined the protest in Egypt - this saw that due to social media permanently connecting activists they were able to create an uprising , protest community . Twitter , Facebook and YouTube were used to present the government abuses of citizens and also shape public opinions about issues such as repression
