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Annotated Bibliography Essay

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Mohamed Moulid
Professor WOLF-MONTEIRO
Media and Society
November 26, 2015

Annotated bibliography

Kessler, S. (2010). Why Social Media Is Reinventing Activism. Mashable. Retrieved 7 November 2015, from http://mashable.com/2010/10/09/social-media-activism/#1ZWjioGawZq7

This article presents the new standards for social activism by examining the introduction of social media. The arguments from both sides are summarized, and a brief discussion is included of the implications for what the author calls Slacktivism (participating in an online activism but not really doing something about the issue). The author indicates that changes to activism will be huge as more and more people participate saying “[The Internet] has changed expectations around reporting,”. This is a helpful source for getting an overview of the influence social media had on our society and how it’s changing as social media evolves and how we are evolving with the change. …show more content…

Even though social media has only been available for a couple of years, it’s impacts and how it influenced the activism scene is unimaginable. The authors point here is that if we all have a strong cause for a change people are going to contribute because you are a sense of hope that jumpstarts their leap of faith.
Kessler’s article is descriptive, timely, and well-analyzed, but it relies almost entirely on quotations from four researchers. And that might limit the scope of the article and who it’s intended for. But at the same time the article answers answer and analyzes the topic from multiple sides and even looks at the future and predicts how current social media will look in the future and how it will pan out. This article has been helpful for my research because of the different key researchers that the author Kessler includes in her research since they specialize or do research in this specific

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