Arguments against my position

1. Social media is just another medium for communication, just like a phone or mail.
   • By reducing OWS to an Internet-specific phenomenon, the minutiae of the movement, its historical antecedents, and the socioeconomic developments that led to its emergence, even the fact that the occupation of Wall Street was an idea originally conceived and propagated by Adbusters, are minimised (Daubs, 7).


2. Facebook was not the reason for the movement. It was spurred on by economic and societal struggles.
   • Taken together, these data suggest that, on Twitter, the Occupy movement tended to elicit participation from a set of highly interconnected users with pre-existing interests in domestic politics and foreign social movements (Conover, 4).
   
   
   • Occupy users remain barely changed, exhibiting a slight increase in attention paid to domestic politics and a slight decrease in attention paid to foreign social movements (Conover, 4).
   
   

Sources

Conover, Michael D., et al. "The Digital Evolution of Occupy Wall Street." PLoS One, vol. 8, no. 5, 2013, ProQuest Central, https://search-proquest-com.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2443/docview/1357023722?accountid=8204, doi:http://dx.doi.org.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2048/10.1371/journal.pone.0064679.

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Daubs, Michael S., and Jeffrey Wimmer. "Forgetting History: Mediated Reflections on Occupy Wall Street." Media and Communication, vol. 5, no. 3, 2017, pp. 49-58, ProQuest Central, https://search-proquest-com.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2443/docview/1962026270?accountid=8204,doi:http://dx.doi.org.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2048/10.17645/mac.v5i3.979.

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