Media activism

To define the difference between “strong tie activism” and “weak tie activism,” “Small Change” is an essay written by Canadian journalist Malcolm Gladwell, which targets several breaches that modern social media activism possesses to this day. Gladwell commences his essay by describing how a protest occurred at a campus in the University of North Carolina after four college students were denied a cup of coffee because of their race, where several of the students’ friends gathered with them to…

against a corrupt government there is always something being flamed through social media. It lights up like Christmas with all the news and rumors of the latest undertaking. Albeit there was no Twitter or Facebook when the students defied the social norms and demanded to be treated fairly as they sat at the lunch counter at Woolworths. That was all word of mouth through a construct of close relationships. That is social media, old school. It was a time of change, but most importantly, it was a…

Social activism is an act that has been around for decades. It is mostly used to stress the issues in society that the government is hesitant to fix or talk about. In Malcolm Gladwell’s excerpt, Small Change, gladwell elaborates on his evidence that social media was not around during the civil rights era and the impact social media has on social activist today. While I agree with Gladwell’s claim that social media was not needed for social activism in the past, I in-part believe that social…

article, I realized how powerful social media can be through some of the examples he provided. For instance, the fact that Sameer Bhatia from Silicon Valley found a match for a bone marrow transplant through a campaign that evolved just from his business partner sending out an email shows that social media is rapid, efficient, and transformative. I agree that social media is changing everyday, therefore influencing the way activism works. I believe that social media is extremely powerful. I also…

In Antonio López’s The Media Ecosystem, he outlines three potential outcomes for media ecosystems that we will face in the near future. The first is termed “Pangloss,” which represents a status quo, in which the current media ecosystem and systems of power do not shift much from their current positions. The next is a worst case scenario, “Pandora,” where a lack of citizen engagement leads to a media ecosystem of censorship, control, as well as a rise of privatization, and capitalistic values.…

In Battling for Hearts and Minds Stern said, “To be young, to dream of something better, to oppose dictatorship: the mix was dangerous” (Stern 2006). The dream is the first step to get what you want. Every nation wants to fight to have a more decent life, and every youth generation wants to live better days than the older generations had before. The youth generations wants to fix everything now in order for the next generations not to face the same struggles as much, but rather have a life that…

Throughout the years, social media has had a powerful impact on how the world communicates today. It is a big part of our life these days. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. They make it easier for the powerless to give voice to their concerns. The impact of online movements has been substantial since the introduction of the internet. With the ever-growing medium of social media, internet activism has reached the forefront of the internet. The opportunity for…

Tweeted” speaks about the role of social media in activism and how historically activism has been done since the Civil Right’s Movement. In general Gladwell tends to disagree with the importance of social media in strong risk activism that in which you’ll see in Greensboro, Iran, Tehran, or Germany during the fall of the Berlin wall. Authority, social ties, hierarchy, participation and strategy are the topics in which Gladwell focuses in on and compares modern activism with its historical…

status and image. However, it is interesting to note how the activism itself requires a participation within mainstream consumer society. By participating in the consumption of…

to Canadian Writer Malcolm Gladwell, our society has forgotten what being a real activist really is. The reason for disregarding this meaning according to Gladwell is social media. Social media has affected and changed activism in many ways both positive and negative. Gladwell’s argument is that Social media has made activism difficult by cutting the string that binds people together. Gladwell supports his points by providing examples and events that have proven his claim to be correct. In the…