Compare and Contrast the Online Communications Realm: Good Humanitarian Works vs. Opportunities to Spread Evil
In this assignment, you will complete the Internet Exploration Worksheet Word Document. In this activity, you will explore the World Wide Web to find examples of international communication efforts for humanitarian or global good as well as for the spread of evil or hate, and summarize your findings.
The Sheet is attatched bellow
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#ArabSpring. #EuroMaidan. #MeToo. #Occupy. #OscarsSoWhite. #FakeNews. #FreeBritney. #IceBucketChallenge.
In this week’s lessons, you’ll be delving into the power social media has to connect and galvanize groups and voices in the causes of both good and evil, right and wrong, change and maintaining the status quo.
One of the more staggering examples of this in recent memory, at least for me, is how the Arab Spring played out on Twitter — and the role internet mobilization plated in toppling an entire government.
Read more about the phenomenon here: https://www.journalism.org/2012/11/28/role-social-media-arab-uprisings/ and here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/25/twitter-facebook-uprisings-arab-libya