Summary Of Why The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted By Malcolm Gladwell
Hassan Samhat
English 203
Rima Rantisi
16 -10-2014
Igniting the Fuse of Revolutions
There is no doubt in mind that we as people are more connected than anytime before. In fact the bonds that bring us together have been closer as new forms of digital applications work their way into every aspect of our daily life. If you doubt that social networking has changed the world, take a look at the Middle East. Social media, particularly Facebook and Twitter, have played an effective role in provoking, accelerating and organizing some of the insurrections and revolutions that have been occurring. These tools have been efficient in galvanizing the young and aiding them in their movements against restrictive authorities and their quandary for more democracy, …show more content…
He started working for the Washington post in 1987 and then transferred to the New Yorker in 1996. “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not be Tweeted” was published in the New Yorker on October 4, 2010.In the text , Malcolm Gladwell starts off a discussion about social change requirements. He particularly supports the argument that social media can’t provide what social change has always required. Gladwell believes that the exuberance of the social media is “outsized”. He then differentiates between Facebook online activism and radical activism using series of counterarguments. Moreover, he affirms that social movements that are powerful enough to enforce change on powerful social forces necessitate both well-set ties among participants and hierarchical organizations; elements not present through organizations relying on social …show more content…
To support his convictions, Gladwell claims that weak ties and ambiguous equality introduced by social networking websites wouldn’t be enough to raise an effective protest, and tried throughout the text to convince the reader with his view toward effective revolutions and social media. His text is reliable and credible because of specific settings of events ‘They would all have remembered the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott that same year, and the showdown in Little Rock in 1957.’(14)
The 2011 Arab Spring rebellions made big use of social media activism within the countries of Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. These nations concentrated on the society’s ability to operate social media technologies and begin organizing essential foundation initiative for a globalized form of democracy. Arab youth population is described as budding societies using social media to blame out the repressive sides of the
English 203
Rima Rantisi
16 -10-2014
Igniting the Fuse of Revolutions
There is no doubt in mind that we as people are more connected than anytime before. In fact the bonds that bring us together have been closer as new forms of digital applications work their way into every aspect of our daily life. If you doubt that social networking has changed the world, take a look at the Middle East. Social media, particularly Facebook and Twitter, have played an effective role in provoking, accelerating and organizing some of the insurrections and revolutions that have been occurring. These tools have been efficient in galvanizing the young and aiding them in their movements against restrictive authorities and their quandary for more democracy, …show more content…
He started working for the Washington post in 1987 and then transferred to the New Yorker in 1996. “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not be Tweeted” was published in the New Yorker on October 4, 2010.In the text , Malcolm Gladwell starts off a discussion about social change requirements. He particularly supports the argument that social media can’t provide what social change has always required. Gladwell believes that the exuberance of the social media is “outsized”. He then differentiates between Facebook online activism and radical activism using series of counterarguments. Moreover, he affirms that social movements that are powerful enough to enforce change on powerful social forces necessitate both well-set ties among participants and hierarchical organizations; elements not present through organizations relying on social …show more content…
To support his convictions, Gladwell claims that weak ties and ambiguous equality introduced by social networking websites wouldn’t be enough to raise an effective protest, and tried throughout the text to convince the reader with his view toward effective revolutions and social media. His text is reliable and credible because of specific settings of events ‘They would all have remembered the murder of Emmett Till in 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott that same year, and the showdown in Little Rock in 1957.’(14)
The 2011 Arab Spring rebellions made big use of social media activism within the countries of Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. These nations concentrated on the society’s ability to operate social media technologies and begin organizing essential foundation initiative for a globalized form of democracy. Arab youth population is described as budding societies using social media to blame out the repressive sides of the