MEDIA IN ORGANIZING PROTESTS An Evaluation on the Use of Social Media in Organizing Protests Alexander P. T. Greven Tilburg University Author Note Alexander Greven‚ Bachelor student at Department of Humanities of Tilburg University. This thesis is part of the Bachelor program Communication and Information Sciences. Supervisors are Dr. S. Milan and Dr. R. Cozijn. Contact: a.p.t.greven@tilburguniversity.edu February 2014 THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN ORGANIZING PROTESTS ii Abstract
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The Enlightenment and Colonial Protest The Enlightenment refers to the seventeenth and eighteenth century in which a historical intellectual movement advocating reason as a means to establishing an authoritative system of ethics‚ government‚ and logic swept through Europe and the Americas. The intellectual leaders regarded themselves as a courageous elite who would lead the world into progress from a long period of doubtful tradition‚ irrationality‚ superstition‚ and tyranny. The movement helped
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Harvard citation style – All examples In-text citations Two or more works cited at one point in the text If two or more works by different authors or authoring bodies are cited at one point in the text‚ use a semi-colon to separate them: (Larsen 2000; Malinowski 1999) The authors should be listed in alphabetical order. Two or three authors or authoring bodies When citing a work by two or three authors or authoring bodies‚ cite the names in the order in which they appear on the title page: (Malinowski
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What would you do if your voice could be used to impact millions in a positive or negative way? Would you make an effort to paint a picture of a righteous act or way of living that others should follow? Although numerous times‚ some of sport’s best athletes have done this in the past‚ one athlete‚ Colin Kaepernick‚ has earned quite the public response after he chose not to stand up during the national anthem. Some people argue that sports is not a time for protesting and politics. However‚ professional
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It was a crisp October morning when I found out the Neo-Nazi protest. For a ten years old I had no idea what a protest really meant or what Neo-Nazis were. In my head‚ I thought that this was some type of hippie thing I seen on television at the time. Boy was I wrong. Towards the afternoon‚ my cousins and I went out to play when we heard some of the older teens talking about what was going on. As we sat on the old green wooden porch‚ I overheard one of the teens say that the KKK was coming and they
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at the week‚ in which Dr David Robinson‚ Senior Lecturer in Biological Science at The Open University‚ discusses what you have learned so far in this course and then introduces some of the ideas and examples explored in week 2. There are different ways that an ecosystem can be defined and you discussed this with other learners‚ to reach a working definition of an ecosystem. You examined the core concept of an ecosystem through the example of a rock pool. Guidance as to how to study ecosystems was
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The ongoing controversy taking place in the National Football League (NFL) is the protesting during the playing of the national anthem. The protest was originally started in the 2016-2017 season by Colin Kaepernick‚ who played quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers at the time. He‚ in fact‚ sat for the anthem and received a great deal of backlash from the public. Many players followed suit by kneeling‚ sitting‚ locking arms and showing solidarity. The backlash has continued and some fans are even
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glues to the screen while I played‚ the stupidly dangerous moon shoes‚ my baby born- the doll the actually ate and shit‚ and then the whoopee cushion that I always found hilariously funny to slip under the couch when no one was looking. Yeah I loved all these toys‚ but where was my favorite? Where the hell was Barbie?
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sexual lifestyles. Homosexuality is an accepted lifestyle nowadays with most evidence proving biological causation‚ and marriage benefits should be available to all couples. Denying them is a violation of religious freedom (civil and religious marriages are two separate institutions). The main reason for denying marriage to gay couples is that all major religions consider homosexuality a sin. Virtually every religion in the world‚ including the major ones in this country‚ considers homosexuality unacceptable
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English 2/25/13 The Adoption of Modernism in T S Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” Modernism first emerged in America as a brand new type of literature in the early years of twentieth century. After the First World War and the Great Depression‚ Western world was looking for a kind of life different from traditional one‚ easier‚ faster‚ more technological‚ and more convenient. Fortunately‚ modernist movement came into sight by then and answered all these requests (VanSpanckeren 61). Being
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