SOCY 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Arab Spring, Social Movement, Mohamed Bouazizi

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 225
• Professor: Sachil Singh

Document Summary

Tales from the global economy: the cappuccino trail. What are icts: information and communication technologies, technologies that store, transfer, process and disseminate data, radios, televisions, computers, the internet, landlines, smart phones, ipods etc. Social movement: what is the social, society. Monopoly of violence shape people"s minds. Social movement: not simply gathering, change, direction, action. A social movement is not a political movement: aimed at transforming the nature of power within existing structures. So what is a social movement: collective action, transformation of societal values, identify systemic issues. Significance of icts to social movements: shift from mass communication to mass-self communication (castells, cyberspace offers a "place" where communication can take place with less fear of intimidation by police. Can also lead to racism, homophobia etc: decreased role of state and media, icts and social movements reify the space between the user and technology. Arab spring: tunisia (december 2010: fear indignation action social movement, mohamed bouazizi.