- Sep 2020
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Local file Local fileGladwell.pdf22
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A networked, weak-tie world is good at things like helping Wall Streeters get phones back from teen-agegirls.Viva la revolución.
the author is obviously mocking all the hard work that modern activists have put in and it honestly makes me angry to the point where i dont really want to elabrte on it because it should be so obvious and i keep making the same point. he is from the older generations and doesnt understand. he is the actual weak minded one, not us. we just found ways that WE know to fight for what we believe in. we arent following exactly what they did in the past but we do pull inspiration from it. we arent knocking the hard work of people during the civil right movement and i would hope they wouldnt knock our hardwork just because it isnt done on pen and paper and word of mouth. its highkey disrespectful of this author.
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It lasted ayear.
it wouldnt last a year nowadays thanks to social media so we are able to approach situations quicker
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The drawbacks of networks scarcely matter if the network isn’t interested in systemic change—if it just wants to frighten or humiliate or make a splash—or if it doesn’t need to think strategically. But if you’re taking on a powerful and organized establishment you have to be a hierarchy
No...the author is demeaning a lot of big accomplishments that were made thru social media and the comparisons hes making are so weak and not strong at all. he just sounds old and lacking knowledge and participation in modern activism
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But the civil-rights movement was more like a military campaign than like a contagion.
in 2020, protestors have been actively fighting despite being gassed and shot at and during a global pandemic. its still similar to a military campaign.
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donor registry in Silicon Valley today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960
the comparison between these two is a very weak argument. there are a lot of recent examples that would make show how invalid the authors argument is. for example, the protests for George Floyd was created on twitter and hundreds of cities across the US had thousands of people actively protesting.
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The kind of activism associated with social media isn’t like this at all. The platforms of social media are built around weak ties. Twitter is a way of following (or being followed by) people you may never have met. Facebook is a tool for efficiently managing your acquaintances, for keeping up with the people you would not otherwise be able to stay in touch with. That’s why you can have a thousand “friends” on Facebook, as you never could in real life
this same conversation could still happen in a dorm room in 2020 just abut a different pressing issue. the author may think that he is making valid points throughout his essay but he is really just demonstrating his lack of knowledge for social media and modern activism.
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he more friends you had who were critical of the regime the more likely you were to join the protest.
this is still the same now, if you have a lot of mutual friends on social media then you are able to get your message across a larger amount of people. you just dont have to leave your home at a specific time to do it but speaking out is still dangerous now too.
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The civil-rights movement was high-risk activism.
high-risk activism still exists in 2020. we dont still have segragated lunch counters to sit at when we want to make a statement but we have businesses to boycott and topics that we actively need to and do speak up on
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On Saturday, as tensions grew, someone called in a bomb threat, and the entire store had to be evacuated
the same way the students were able to spread the word so quickly, the opposing party was able to do the same.
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epithets
a term of abuse
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ominously
giving the impression that something bad is going to happen
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ostentatiously
in a way to impress or intimidate
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insubordination
defiance of authority
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The marvels of communication technology inthe present have produced a false consciousness about the past—even a sense that communication has no history, or had nothing of importance to consider before the days of television and the Internet.”
i find myself disagreeing with the statements made in this essay a lot because i feel like again, people who do not understand how social media or even the new aged activism works, tend to disagree with it and be dramatic.
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grandiosity
the quality of being impressive and impressive in appearance or style.
basically, you may make yourself seem or look like you know but you dot really know. fake.
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In the Iranian case, meanwhile, the people tweeting about the demonstrations were almost all in the West. “It is time to get Twitter’s role in the events in Iran right,” Golnaz Esfandiari wrote, this past summer, inForeign Policy.“Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.” The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists whocouldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
western journalists took matter into their own hands without truly knowing what was happening from people inside of Iran. they took what they knew from things they collected from twitter and put it into their own hands. this is where i strongly disagree with social media activism. you may not need to be face to face but you do need to speak directly to people instead of making assumptions.
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scant
barely sufficient or adequate
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These are strong, and puzzling, claims.
the claims are true though because everyone on social media has a voice and you can only do so much to mute someones voice when it comes to the internet and social media. the saying that "everything you put online lasts forever" is not exactly a negative thing in this case because online we are nearly all equals. some people may have bigger followings than other but regardless we are posting, seeing, and responding on the same platforms.
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popular will h
is popular will meaning what please the masses?
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By the following Monday, sit-ins had spread to Winston-Salem, twenty-five miles away, and Durham, fifty miles away. The day after that, students at Fayetteville StateTeachers College and at Johnson C. Smith College, in Charlotte, joined in, followed onWednesday by students at St. Augustine’s College and Shaw University, in Raleigh. On Thursday and Friday, the protest crossed state lines, surfacing in Hampton and Portsmouth, Virginia, in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and in Chattanooga, Tennessee. By the end of the month, there were sit-ins throughout the South, as far west as Texas.
I think it is really amazing how quickly it spread to different campuses but was it all word of mouth? it had to have been.
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By next morning, the protest had grown to twenty-seven men and four women,
How did they get the word around to other students of what they were doing? did they tell them after the first day they sat at the counter or was it something they had been planning?
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Social media can’t provide what social change has always required.
Already, I do not agree with the author of this essay. I feel as though a lot of the older generation does not understand the power of social media. they also do not understand how social media woks so many of them fail to understand that this is our bigger way of communication and fighting for what we believe in. its just not what they are used to or practical for them so of course they find it flawed or not as efficient.
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