Blog #7

Blog #7

In Chapter 1, Move on Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy. This chapter is mainly about labor protests in Wisconsin and the examination of internet-mediated advocacy groups and how they play in American politics today. There is also a section on prevailing scholarships on internet politics. Arguing that is has turned into two subsections called organizing without organizations and theory 2.0. Clicktivism is also a large section of the chapter which means a layer of organization specifically politics. This chapter discusses many chapter. Actually seven in total. In one chapter, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter are talked about. All of these social media platforms are also known as blogs or media channels since they are organized online and information is able to spread so largely through these applications.

In our most recent PowerPoint on the New Generation of Political Advocacy Groups. I learned that there is current research about the internet and politics holds two competing claims to be true. Karpf who is the author offers a third option that modifies these claims. The first claim is where the new media environment has enabled a surge in “organizing without organizations”. The second claim is where new media “clictivism” has no real effect at all on American politics, which remains the same old, entrenched system. The third claim changes in information technology and has transformed the organizational layer of American. His many claims have led to new media and led to more advocacy groups. This shows that new media like Hashtags can lead to advocacy groups, just like the NYPD hashtag and how that hashtag has lead to so much more. This hashtag showing support for the NYPD was turned into a negative idea. #MyNYPD turned into people posting content that showed this organization beating protestors and stopping protests with physical violence

We watched a video is class today, February 23^rd. The video mainly talks about Twitter. Twitter was a key aspect in organizing protests now-a-days. This is something we believe to be true and again something that the DCAT still uses to share their ideas and to get information out. Twitter allows people to be able to collaborate by hashtags and usernames to become something better and overall a greater good. Zeynep Tufekci mentioned during her TED talk that the media was very slow when reacting to a real story or protest. They would wait to hear what the government wanted them to do. We are all so grateful and thankful for smart phones, social media, advocacy, and Twitter. People have rallied all around the world to show their impact and care for using media, new media and digital technologies.