Sans médias libres, pas de liberté de pensée. Evan Bailyn: The Difference Between Slacktivism And Activism: How 'Kony 2012' Is Narrowing The Gap. As of today over 82 million YouTube viewers have seen Kony 2012, the video which aims to make Joseph Kony, militant leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, public enemy number one. The video is a viral phenomenon which makes no secret of targeting social media users -- images of people using Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are woven through the film, particularly as the narrator outlines the call to action. The plan is simple -- create a siren of voices throughout the world, via letters, videos, phone calls and yes, social media, to get our government to take Kony down.
The video possesses the perfect blend of elements needed to turn a good cause into a social explosion: a clear bad guy (Kony abducts children and forces them to become brutal soldiers), an inspiring plan of action and, most importantly, an invitation to find the compassion in our hearts. It goes beyond simply showing a photo of a victimized child or a war-torn land. Storify Activist. Twitter, Facebook, and social activism. At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, Ezell Blair, said to the waitress. “We don’t serve Negroes here,” she replied. The Woolworth’s lunch counter was a long L-shaped bar that could seat sixty-six people, with a standup snack bar at one end.
The seats were for whites. The snack bar was for blacks. Another employee, a black woman who worked at the steam table, approached the students and tried to warn them away. By next morning, the protest had grown to twenty-seven men and four women, most from the same dormitory as the original four. By the following Monday, sit-ins had spread to Winston-Salem, twenty-five miles away, and Durham, fifty miles away. The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. Gladwell, Réseaux sociaux et Slacktivisme. Les réseaux sociaux ne peuvent entrainer un réel engagement social, un activisme IRL. C'est ce que défend Malcolm Galdwell dans les colonnes du New-Yorker. Analyse et petit rappel sur la structure des réseaux sociaux. Avez-vous lu le dernier papier de Malcolm Gladwell ? Si vous ne l’avez pas fait, c’est un peu comme si vous pensiez que MySpace est à la mode.
Vous êtes déjà TRÈS en retard. Comme la plupart des lecteurs n’ont pas nécessairement le temps, ou la motivation de se coller les centaines de lignes de l’article, je vous propose une petite analyse. Pour Gladwell, l’engagement social, l’activisme sur les médias sociaux est une légende. Je vous vois venir, vous allez me rappeler les élections Iraniennes, l’élection de Barack etc. Gladwell affirme que ces soi-disant révoltes fomentées sur Twitter n’auraient en fait été que des distorsions médiatiques, politiques et technologiques de la réalité vues de l’Occident. Voici le premier paragraphe du dit papier : Structure des réseaux sociaux.