|
Next Offered
|
Registration Deadline
|
Registration Opens
|
| August 31 – October 5, 2012 |
August 24, 2012
|
TBA
|
| SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SOCIAL CHANGE GSLL 1506 Course tuition: $390 2 CEUs Duration: 5 weeks |
Click below to register! |
Examine how social media, whether Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or blogs, is increasingly being used for activism, helping organize and mobilize protests, social movements and even revolutions around the globe. Learn how social network sites (SNS) have successfully been employed to bring out voters in the United States, stage marches and demonstrations in Latin America, and create a protest movement turned revolution in Tunisia and Egypt. Study examples where SNS have been less successful e.g., in Iran, Bahrain and Libya. Review case studies and social movement theory literature to understand how influential social media is, when we can refer to a “Facebook revolution” or a “Twitter revolution, ” and why a social media-driven movement might result in a revolution in one country but not another. Examine the digital divide, and consider how successful a movement organized online can be when so much of the world’s population lacks access to new technologies. Gain an understanding of which social media can best be incorporated into activism.
Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Identify various forms of social media.
- Implement social media strategies that can help activists and social movements.
- Identify the dominant paradigms in social movement research, and how they do or do not apply to social media movements.
