This week in class we spent a lot time discussing Occupy Wall Street and the 950 smaller activism movements that resulted from. In my freshman seminar entitled Citizenship here at Emory, we spent the the latter half of the semester reading Joseph Stiglitz's "The Price of Inequality" as well as watching documentaries about the subject. In this class, we discussed the specific details of what the protesters where arguing and whether or not their was truth to the power of the 1%. The discussions where extremely informative of what the Occupy movements were truly about. However it was not until we watched the documentaries, listening to the audio and seeing the visual acts of wrongdoing that I truly understood what the we the 99% were protesting for. This goes to show how strong the power of media is in not just informing but educating the youth in social and activist issues of the global society in which we live. The media inspired me to research and investigate on my own to find out more about the movement that was truly fighting.
In Eltantawy and Wiest's "Social Media in the Egyptian Revolution: Reconsidering Resource Mobilization Theory", they discuss the power of social media in informing not just the youth but also the general public of current events and issues. The social media provides not just the information and basic facts but also empowers the creation, organization, and implementation of social movements around the world. However, at a certain point the social media and articles posted about sensitive topics become overwhelming. There are too many views and opinions that it becomes too overwhelming to form your own opinion and find you own voice in the topic. At least, that's how I feel.....Often times, I find myself taking on the opinion of others without fully researching the topic in order to just move on and steer away from the confusion. However, it is important to note that just like me the person forming this opinion may not have fully researched to topic. SO while media is all well and good without using Henry Jenkin's method of participatory culture of education and truly investigate the knowledge on our own instead of simply accepting what we see blogged and plastered all over the internet as fact and truth, we cannot truly creat
In Eltantawy and Wiest's "Social Media in the Egyptian Revolution: Reconsidering Resource Mobilization Theory", they discuss the power of social media in informing not just the youth but also the general public of current events and issues. The social media provides not just the information and basic facts but also empowers the creation, organization, and implementation of social movements around the world. However, at a certain point the social media and articles posted about sensitive topics become overwhelming. There are too many views and opinions that it becomes too overwhelming to form your own opinion and find you own voice in the topic. At least, that's how I feel.....Often times, I find myself taking on the opinion of others without fully researching the topic in order to just move on and steer away from the confusion. However, it is important to note that just like me the person forming this opinion may not have fully researched to topic. SO while media is all well and good without using Henry Jenkin's method of participatory culture of education and truly investigate the knowledge on our own instead of simply accepting what we see blogged and plastered all over the internet as fact and truth, we cannot truly creat