Arguments for my position
- Social media is free and easy to access for most Americans
- "The average donation to Occupy Wall Street traveled over
800 miles. If you think about it, during the 1960s (protest
movements), it would have taken several days for that
donation to travel that far and then the check to be cashed,
not to mention the time it would have taken for information
to travel to get that money, " according to WePay CEO Bill
Clerico(Boudreau, 2)
- The movement counts more than 400 Facebook pages with 2.7
million fans around the world (Preston, 1).
- Movement leaders were able to mobilize more people than ever
in a moment’s notice
- San Francisco-based Twitter reported that about 330,000
Occupy-related hashtags are tweeted every day (Boudreau, 1).
- More than 450,000 Facebook users have joined Occupy Wall
Street pages (Kanalley, 1).
Sources
Boudreau, John. "Occupy Wall Street, Brought to You by Social
Media." Oakland Tribune, Nov 02, 2011, ProQuest Central,
https://search-proquest-com.libproxy.adelphi.edu:2443/docview/901935102?accountid=8204.
Database: Proquest, Source is popular, not reviewed, in-text
citations, definitely biased in favor of Occupy Wall Street and
social media.
Kanalley, Craig. “Occupy Wall Street: Social Media's Role In Social
Change.” The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 6 Oct. 2011,
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street-social-media_n_999178.html.
Source: Web, Source is popular, Not reviewed, there are in-text
citations, biased towards social media as a good thing.
Preston, Jennifer. “Protesters Look for Ways to Feed the Web.” The
New York Times, The New York Times, 24 Nov. 2011,
www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/business/media/occupy-movement-focuses-on-staying-current-on-social-networks.html.
Source: Web, Source is popular, Not reviewed, there are in-text
citations, biased towards social media as a good thing.