Is the idea that social media can enable and empower us in the real world a pretense generated by media owners and technological idealism, or is it a reality? While human factors such as anger at regimes are the petrol fuelling protest, new media could soon be viewed as the maps leading to victory.
Social media activism is something that is spreading fast and is still new to many people, according to Bill Tsitsos, assistant professor in the department of sociology. A prime example of this is Invisible Children and the Kony 2012 campaign. Tsitsos said that the organization has been causing controversy with its 30-minute viral video campaign. The video was a simple tactic meant to bring ...
( Rice University ) Over the course of 2011's momentous Arab Spring uprisings, young women in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in their countries, according to a new study commissioned by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
