Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Resource Mobilization, Union Movement, Collective Action
9 Apr 2018
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The rise of social media a) b) c) Social relations (the patterned connections we form with others) Social activism (the ways in which we seek to cause social change) We can hide/suppress parts of ourselves and pretend to be things that we are not in ways not possible in face to face interaction. Helping us to find out who we are, using social media as a way of coming out. Social media has taken over a large part of our lives. People end to use social media to augment telephone and face to face communication, not to replace them. Social media tends to increase interaction and build community- but not community in the traditional sense. Social media opens up new ways of engaging in social change. People can advocate and spread awareness of a wide variety of causes using social media causes using social media.
