Does social media affects deeply or not any social or
political movement. Well the fact is the
almost everybody uses the social media now especially the youth. Now for any
kind of movement or change you need people, crowd and youth who are going to be
the future of that change. Young blood has the power and determination of something
to change. For a movement is necessary that they be an essential part of the
movement. Social media are just not spread awareness but it helps the movement,
it made it popular, it can create a small thing in to large.
Many negotiations have been
generated lately on the topic of social networking and the effect it may play
on the creation and mobilization of social movement. For example, the emergence
of the Coffee Party first appeared on the social
networking site, Facebook. The
party has continued to gather membership and support through that site and file
sharing sites, such as Flickr.
The 2009–2010 Iranian election protests also
demonstrated how social networking sites are making the mobilization of large
numbers of people quicker and easier. Iranians were able to organize and speak
out against the election of Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad by using sites such
as Twitter and Facebook.
This in turn prompted widespread government censorship of the web and social
networking sites.
The sociological study of social
movements is quite new. The traditional view of movements often perceived them
as chaotic and disorganized, treating activism as a threat to the social order. The activism experienced
in the 1960s and 1970s shuffled in a new world opinion about the subject.
Models were now introduced to understand the organizational and structural
powers embedded in social movements.
Even I can remember one latest
case of the rape case. In which one of the young got raped and police and
government took it very lightly. But it was the youth and especially the young
girl who plan a movement through the social media. It became huge and force government
to take firm steps. Even very well know ideas like flash mob and slut march are
the results of the movement planed through the social media tools and brought
the in the society. Even these things are well spread all over the world and
people appreciate it and joined it thanks to social media.
