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Malcolm Gladwell Small Changes Summary

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In his article, Small Changes, Malcolm Gladwell goes in depth on the revolution of social media and its impact it has in society. In addition, Gladwell claims the threat social media has on social media because it prevents people from having face to face conversations and it leads to more interactions through the networks social media has to offer not having a strong ability to create a change in the world. Although Gladwell claims otherwise and expresses his fear throughout the article, in today’s society social media has dramatically changed with its differences in the pros and cons it has to offer to the universe. Despite Gladwell’s beliefs, social media has the power to unite millions worldwide along with educating he or she on the world’s …show more content…

As Gladwell claims, social media is the cause of this. With the active users on the networks users are able to chat, video chat and verbally talk through technology. This is not only offered through a device like a cell phone or tablet. On the Facebook application you are able to video chat and call someone through the messages which does not allow anything other than the wifi itself. There are millions of users who do not pay for a phone line because he or she has the ability to interact with another person via applications. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, reported that 400 million Facebook Messenger users are making voice and video calls every month globally (Business Insider). Gladwell’s fear of less face to face interaction can be taken into consideration. There are users that interact with each other who have never met in the real world. Social media has the ability to create false identities. It also has the ability to create numerous of lies on movements and news. However, social media also has the ability to research information through reliable sources. With the power of social media people save more time talking and interacting through the networks because it is not time consuming and it adaptable to learn how to use the various of …show more content…

Afterall, during the Civil Rights movement there was no social media involved. Yet millions came together as a whole for the march. However, the Civil Rights activists spent years organizing the march which allowed it be as successful as it initially was. With the power of social media it takes as little as 30 seconds to post something to the entire universe. On all social media network accounts users are able to like, comment, and even repost something which allows his or her followers to see and engage to it and so on. This then leads to the exposure of more and more people seeing which involves the entire social media

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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 Iran, during protest upon a rigged election, the Farsi version of Twitter had yet to have been released and the government effectively had shut down the internet in major cities, which then point to the tweeting to have originated from the West from English-speakers. Rather than just not truly understand or being there to have seen what occurred, their actions actually allowed the government to hunt opposition leaders through photos that had been posted after protest had died down. Though social media made it easier “for the powerless to collaborate, coordinate, and give voice to their concerns” (Gladwell 171), in this case, there was no difference, no “true” activism to be seen, and only furthered oppression. This is not to say social media is cannot help progress change. They can, yet they help facilitate it, not drive it.

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I agree with both Gladwell’s and Carr’s claims of the influence of technology on us. Gladwell begins to first mention the idea of social media activism (new activism) in the essay with, “The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coordinate, and give voice to their concerns (Gladwell 310).” Gladwell claims “political authority and popular will has been upended,” that technology is creating a societal relationship where there is no system of hierarchy, therefore creating no set system of order and balance; everyone is to have an equal say in any

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When presented with the argument that says social media allows faster communication and the ability to reach a larger audience, Gladwell counters with the fact that the media promotes weak connections with many people which in and of itself is not a bad thing, but does not do well in fostering revolutions. He explains “There is strength in weak ties… It’s terrific at the diffusion of innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration… But weak ties seldom lead to high-risk activism” (407). He ties in his explanation of weak connections with the fact that social media has no hierarchy, so any revolution started there will have no organization or true leadership.

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