CMN 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Birch Society, Joseph Kony, Gun Safety
19 Jan 2018
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Trends in use of social media by activists. Towards higher levels of activism and made possible by social media (online petitions, letters to mps, protest rallies, marches, etc. ) Toward opinion leaders and influencers coming from unexpected places, emerging overnight and sometimes disappearing equally quickly if credibility is lost. Protest rallies, organized on social media, now include a wide diversity of issues: ex. stop bill c-51, stop fracking, anti-fascism, stop bill c-45, stand up for science. One of the largest multi-issue protests followed in 2010 in response to a g20 economic summit in toronto. The protests, which brought together advocates for indigenous rights, gay rights, anti-poverty, anti-capitalism, and anti-globalization, among others, ended with the arrests of 1000 protestors. The spontaneous gathering of the largest multi-issue protest rally in american history on. Globally, an estimated 3. 2 million marched to promote their views on these same issues.
