THIS article goes right off of the other article.
The question it poses is "Do Social Media Make Protests Possible" and this is exactly what I mentioned in the previous post.
Organized protests are hard to get together but recently, it has been come increasingly easier for people.
Innovations in communication technology have solved the problem of trying (and failing) to organize protests on a large scale. As Shirky said "Digital networks have acted as a massive positive supply shock to the cost and spread of information, to the ease and range of public speech by citizens and to the speed and scale of group coordination."
This quote shows exactly what I mean about how social media has made it easier for people to organize, express their opinions and to make everything go on such a large scale.
i totally agree, social media enables people to communicate on such a large scale, that it has never been easier to coordinate a protest. In fact, if i'm not mistaken the walk-outs organized on campuses, used to protest Scott Walker were organized on Facebook. So overall, i think social media makes protests possible, when they might not have been possible before, it makes it easier for people to get their message out, and get people to rally behind them.
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