Digital Communication 3209F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Donald Trump, Planning Permission, Crowdfunding
14 Dec 2019
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Social media as a new mode of protest. Dc3209 | c. guertin | 28 oct 2019. According to poell and van dijck: social media protest activity has transformed activism. This transformation enables: bottom-up and distributed forms of, 1. protest, 2. mobilization, 3. organization, 4. and communication. Poell and van dijck see social media not as a cause of uprisings, but as a tool used to assist protestors in organizing and protesting. Viral media denotes togetherness, not community: through platform shaping, social media greatly enhance the news-oriented character of activist communication, this shifts the focus away from protest issues towards the spectacular, newsworthy, and. Summarize the section and then explain the key points to us. Finally, tweet your findings (with images, where appropriate) to the class. The nesta report convincingly demonstrates that hundreds of digital tools and platforms presently in use across the globe have enormous potential to strengthen the democractic process. Modeled on the people"s meetings" held by sweden &
