COMS 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: First Nations, Tumblr, Citizen Journalism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMS 230
• Professor: Cayley Sorochan

Document Summary

Choreographies of assembly: egalitarian 8lat network is an ideal not a reality. Metaphor re8lecting a script or plan that guides movements that follow, it characterizes the way new media offer scripts that allow space for improvisation. There"s both structure and improve at play by these social movement platforms. Anti-globalization movement: departure from the ideal of horizontality is a negative. Gerbado urges us to rethink our assumptions about the leadership and spontaneous nature of these technologies. Finding points of unity and common identi8ication rather than produce movements that mirror the abstract notion. Emerging media provides means that merge common democratic spaces and bridges political divide. Emerging media platform should do more than just coordinate. Refers to how activits engage in soft leadership as to how one might participate in public space. Whether or not people repond depends on how key organizers engage with social media, active communication that is not spontaneous.