Social Media’s Effect on Political and Social Activism

The first article written by Gladwell discussed how activism through social media is based off of weak ties whereas changes that are brought about without social media are much more personal making them more powerful. The author admits…

Social Media and it’s Impact on Social Movements

Social media is rampant in today’s society. It is used for entertainment, news, spreading ideas and many other things. Nowadays, instead of getting a newspaper, most people just refresh their Twitter feeds. Social media can prove to be extremely…

Online Activism

In the works of Gladwell, Stephen, and Walton each author offered ideas of how they believed social media was impacting social activism and politics. Malcolm Gladwell’s article, “Small Change” incorporated his ideas and beliefs that social media was weakening social activism. Throughout the article…

“Countering,” Confidence, and Civility: Blog Post 3

Find (and link to) an example of what Joe Harris calls “countering” and offer an explanation of how one author is countering or “suggesting a different way of thinking.” Do they uncover values at play in the discussion of their topic? Do…

Social Media Activism: The Changes in the Decades

The three articles by Gladwell, Walton, and Stephen all have different views on how technology influences social change. Gladwell’s views on social media are based on them changing social activism. He feels that technology has made activism…

Social Media — A Pro or Con?

In his article, Gladwell talks about how social media is the opposite of a hierarchy. Social media is a growing network, constantly growing and finding new ways to connect people. I feel as though staying connected on social media helps in a number of ways. The Arak Journal…

The articles written by Gladwell, Walton and Stephen show the effects and changes that social media has presented on society, but they discuss this matter in different ways. In Bijan Stephen’s article “Black Lives Matter” he talks about how simple it has become to spread news through social media. However, he sees this as a negative and dangerous…

Goodbye Newspapers, Hello Social Media

Newspapers have become a thing of the past. Although they’re still around, you don’t have to wait for the Sunday paper anymore to find out what is going on with the world that week. Now in this digital age, every time of news that is even remotely relevant, can…

The Essentialism of Social Media

Natalie Waltman in “How Advocating from the Comfort of Our Own Homes Has Impacted American Politics” brings on the differentiation of old media versus new media. She expresses how new media relies on within-the-minute contact. The ability to immediately break stories as…

Is Activism Action?

Technology has had a huge impact on activism and different aspects of it are described in the three articles. In Malcolm Gladwell’s “Small Change” he describes a sit in that happened in North Carolina. The sit in occured before Twitter and Facebook were around but the protest continually grew…

Blog Post 2: #Change

Social media changes many parts of our environment without many people even noticing. There are writers, scholars, and everyday people who share opinion how technology influences social change. Malcolm Gladwell writes about how social has changed the world for the better. However, there are…

We are greatly impacted by what we see online. We take into account what our family and friends think, we may make decision based on a photo or video we have seen and we can be shaped by facts that we here. Online is somewhere where all of this happens in one place. Because of this, we make changes to what we see based on our own interests and…

Blog Post 2: Social Media

Gladwell, Walton, and Stephen all had somewhat similar approaches to the new rise of social media. Gladwell write of racial activism and seemed to have mixed feelings about the rise of social media because while it was a portal to allow many people to join and connect for the…