Nowadays, Facebook and Twitter are not just only for sharing people daily life and photos, people can share their opinion with the public, hold activities or even organise a protest.
Most of the people have an account of Facebook and Twitter, the range of user is very large. These social media can be a tool to summon up the people for the revolutions movements. People are using the social network to organise the protest, they can know everything about the protest in real-time. It is very easy to search any news about the protest by using the hashtag. For example, in 2014, #UmbrellaMovement.
In the Umbrella Movement, people use three languages to update the post with the hashtag, so not only the people in Hong Kong, the world is watching this protest in real-time too. People also set up an official Facebook page of the protest for a live update. It has over 70,000 followers within a day. Since people will not trust all the information on TV nowadays, they want to verify the information about the protest, so that people will not get confused about the fake news. Besides, knowing more information about the protest, people can offer help or support from people while they have better knowledge of the situation.
The social network is so powerful that people can share whatever they like or even try to change their life by using social media to hold a protest. It is not only Hong Kong, but so many other cases in foreign country do so. People use social media for the protest movement which can spread the news quickly and widely.
-Tammy
References
- Morozov, E. (2011, March 07). Facebook and Twitter are just places revolutionaries go | Evgeny Morozov. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/07/facebook-twitter-revolutionaries-cyber-utopians
- Chan, W. (2014, September 30). Cell phones and umbrellas: Protesting Hong Kong-style. Retrieved from http://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/29/world/asia/hong-kong-internet-youth-protest/index.html
- Parker, E. (2017, June 20). Social Media and the Hong Kong Protests. Retrieved from https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/social-media-hong-kong-protests
- Bohdanova, T. (2014, January 23). How Internet Tools Turned Ukraine’s #Euromaidan Protests Into a Movement · Global Voices. Retrieved from https://globalvoices.org/2013/12/09/how-internet-tools-turned-euromaidan-protests-into-a-movement/
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Indeed, social media is a powerful platform. It gives vocie to the powerless. When justice is not done, a person has to sort to such platforms to voice out! This blog is really informative and provides us a better view of the uses of the social media.
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WOW！Social media platform is such powerful! Everyone can say their own opinion! You also remained me how the Umbrella Movement sensation at the time!
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Agreeing everyone, Social media is so big and i think is the best way to share your opinion and also to tell everyone else what’s going on around the world.
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I bet no one will say social media is not powerful right? Love the way that social media platforms are not only for leisure but also a good place fighting for justice!
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I must never forget the Umbrella Movement that image still in my mind and undeniable social media give many power of this movement.
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