Week 12
The ‘Global Unrest’ article was my favorite article this week. I knew that online revolutions are usually affective because it isn’t easy to regulate them. However, I hadn’t thought about the government putting out propaganda and it being dismissed or “instantly flammable” due to the millions of people seeing it and being able to discuss it with each other. It makes sense that online revolutions are able to easily undermine the hierarchy and give the people a new sense of power. In all honesty, I am kind of ignorant about the revolutions being talked about in the readings, so I found this article to be the easiest to comprehend. It was interesting to see the ways in which the online revolutions today parallel with revolutions that go as far back as 1914. I would be interested to see how experts think social media and technological evolution will influence future revolutions.
