Small Changes Why The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Summary

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

I believe that he states a good and clear position when he explains that social media cannot provide discipline and strategy as a campaign would or a boycott which requires and depend on strategic and persistent; because they have a leader and not a network. Although, social media cannot be control by a single authority, but it creates larger network, which can help people when it comes to communication but it doesn’t always work even if there is a leading strategy. As Gladwell said internet and social media is resilient and adaptable. such as the Freedom Project of 1964; four years after the sit in, of Greensboro. The student Nonviolent Coordinating committee recruited white protesters to work unpaid to run freedom school, register black voters among other thing; But this movement took the life of three volunteers, while churches were being burn. Yet, 75% of the volunteers remained while the rest dropped out saying that “is not for the faint of heart” meaning that work was very dangerous in every possible way but without social media people gather for a great cause even if there were been brutally