Social Movements and Social Media

The increase of br otherwisely media and its rise to place and influence is a documentaryly young practice. genial media started acquiring global attention all(prenominal) since the rise of MySpace in 2003 to the ultimate take over from Facebook founded in 2004, affable media has been the most influential medium in our present-day(prenominal) generation. With this innovative form of tie-in also came a new form of collective verbalise and since this advance in technology there has been the birth of affectionate media social movements. Are the geezerhood of picketing long since forgotten? affable media has diluted social movements in such a panache that there is no much disruption to the status quo. Social movements in this day and eon have less(prenominal) pack and ar taken less seriously and it is all because of mesh slacktivism. Online petitions, Facebook groups, shared p elds; all of these regenerate the physical participation and the very real emotion that social movements had once brought. Social movements on the profits do neat topics and can support a positive cause, however Internet activism is slowing progress and displace the message that this generation does care, withal non enough to part their information processing system chair. The Internet and social medias are diluting our social movements.\nWhat is slacktivism? Slacktivism gist slacker activism, coined by Fred Clark in 1995. In the golden age of technology where almost every(prenominal) student has a electric cell or personal computer it is evident that everyone has become attached and has a relation enthral ship with social media that they take as seriously as real life. It has its positives and its negatives but one thing that it has directly had an effect on is social movements and civil activism. make signs and becoming part of a protest of movement, or other types of involvement are slowly diminishing and protest battles are being fought behind a keyboar d in public forums. It is not to say that it does not overwork because we have seen progress from meshwork activism...