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Celia Buckman in the Column, “The limits of Hashtag Activism,” explains, how the use of hashtags in social media can be effective in raising awareness, but how people are not often fully informed of he causes when supporting the cause. Buckman writes a strong article through the use of statistics, a concession and the structure of her column. Throught Buckman’s article she uses logos, statistics to explain how using social media raise awareness more money than without the use of the hashtag. Buckman’s first example is the ALS Ice bucket challenge, she explains that without the use of #icebucketchallange, donations wouldn’t have reached “100 million in one month during the viral challenge, compared with 2.8 M raised last year during the same period (Par 2). Buckman’s use of statistics makes her article strong as, it gives her argument credibility. The use of statistics supports her idea that using “hashtags” works , as the amount donated to ALS, using the hashtag was 7.2 Million or 3,500% more than without the use of the hashtag. Buckman uses a second example of a movement, “BringBackOurGirls.” which was a movement to bring back kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls. Buckman’s use of specific dates to explain how a month went by without any real efforts to find the kidnapped girls, but …show more content…

Buckman suggests “If you rep a cause on social media, find out what the next steps could be, and take them (par 7). Buckman mentioning how people should go beyond just using a hashtag allows for readers to be left thinking on how they could help in causes they feel strong for. Instead of the ending her article Buckman encourages people to make more of a difference. Overall Buckman’s structure of her column made it easy for the reader to understand as she introduces her point of view, offers a concession to her viewpoint on the topic and lastly adds a solution to make a bigger impact on

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In the essay ‘Small changes: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted’ Malcolm Gladwell claims that social media doesn’t have a function when it comes to any Revolutionary movement or activism, since it forms a weak reflection among people; And the way people do activism. Gladwell point out his idea of social media ineffectiveness by giving several cases from the Civil Right Movement to show that social media didn’t exist, claiming that it neither wasn’t needed. By providing information of a past event when Four black student did a sit in; at Greensboro, North Carolina the beginning of one large act of activism outnumber from four to eight hundred, going throughout the south and west Texas. This example shows that social media was not needed to spread-out the information of this

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“But there is something else at work here, in the outsized enthusiasm for social media. Fifty years after one of the most extraordinary episodes of social upheaval in American history, we seem to have forgotten what activism is” (Gladwell 44). Gladwell strongly feels that the internet has created this loss of social activism in the world, in which the internet has redefined what protesting used to stand for. Protests during the civil rights movement, was a method for people to bring about change, but since the creation of the internet people use it as a way to replace protesting. Carr believes that the internet creates a loss of reading while Gladwell thinks it creates a loss of the meaning of social activism.

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In his article “Inside Bernie Sanders’s Social Media”, journalist Michael Grothaus discussed how the Democratic nominee hopeful has dominated social media. His piece for the website of magazine Fast Company pointed the similarities between Sanders’ use of social media compared to that of Barack Obama’s in 2008 and explained how the Sanders campaign has used social media to mobilize his movement. All of the points Grothaus made in his article required the use of rhetoric: either ethos, logos, or pathos. Grothaus employed these strategies by citing experts on the use of social media in presidential campaigns, analyzing the effect social media has on campaigns, and showing how social media has brought people together for the campaign.

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Another way author Orenstein establishes logos effectively to convince the reader to become one with twitter is by using statistics. When considering how many people are empathetic in their tweets, the article reads: “in an analysis of 72 studies performed on nearly 14,000 college students between 1979 and 2009, researchers at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan found a drop in that trait, with the sharpest decline occurring since 2000.” (Orenstein) She uses this statistic to claim that social media may not have instigated that trend, but by encouraging self-promotion over self-awareness, they’re accelerating it. The numbers in the statistic automatically strike an appeal to logos and the author steers the attention of the reader to how much empathy has declined in people since 1979.

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“Don’t use social media to impress people; use it to impact people” Dave Willis. Malcolm Gladwell, would not agree or disagree with this statement. In his article “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”, Gladwell talks the impact social media has on activism. He believes social media will not spur the next revolution because the connections are too weak. Social media can create small change or awareness, but it can’t lead people to take a real action.

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When Carr talks about how the internet is taking over his mental state he states, “And what the net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation” (32). The internet is no longer be used as just a tool, it is taking a mental toll on him. The internet now consumes his mind, and is creating a new state of mind in which he cannot focus for long periods of time anymore. Gladwell touches on how the internet is taking over how activists convey their feelings and argues, “It makes it easier for activists to express themselves, and harder for that expression to have an impact” (51). Being an activist in today’s time, with the advances of technology, makes a social activists way of expression through the internet easier, but at the same time the activists loses it power of impact.

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