Introduction
Since, the evolution of social media the life of people has been transformed. It has created a high impact on society. The role of writers, media and press has influenced people mindset in both positive and negative way (Bonilla and Rosa, 2015) Media has played a crucial role in covering stories around the world. It has covered digital activism and protest that occurs in the society. Besides this, by tapping on vital points and reflections on stories media has given a mainstream to focus on this. Social media has shaped the life of people. It has showed them the path on how to share or protest their views and thoughts. This essay will show how social media platforms has connected people and social life. Also, how it has created a network that has shaped life of people.
Analysis
Social media platforms have provided a way of getting connected with each other. By using this people share their views regarding things happening in their society (Kaun and Uldam, 2017) With this it becomes easy for them to know what is right and wrong. This helps them to protest or support it. There are many meaning of digital citizenship. It is said that it refers to benefit society as a whole by using social media tools. It helps leaders to understand how technology must be used by children and adults in appropriate way. There has been a great impact on South Africa and Middle East, where the protestors have used tools in influencing people. By starting campaigns people are making efforts to rise social cause or protest it. It has enabled them to think in both positive and negative way. The role of activists in connecting society and people can be seen as major impact on technology (Bimber, Copeland and Gibson, 2015) By using this platform it has made it easy for them to influence people regarding social cause.
Social media has been very effective in mobilisation. It means encouraging relationship between activism process and people following it. Digital citizenship is way of describing how to use technology by an individual. It gives responsibility to individual his privacy rights on social media rights. Now a days activists are using social media tools to promote campaigns (Elliott and Earl, 2016). This can be described by taking example of Istanbul where people protested using Twitter using hashtag #DirenMerdiven for political uprising. Each social media platform creates a particular kind of influence of social life of people. It is been used by them as a tool in protesting against any political power. Besides this, social media platforms are used as tool in political connections. You tube is used in campaigns to influence people during elections. A theory was given that compares technology X and Y (Chadwick and Stromer-Galley, 2016) it is believed that politicians was blamed for driving social media in Arab region. It has expanded its role in different areas. The global voice authors have created over 9600 stories about protest, 10500 on digital activism around the world. Many of those stories have given a brief overview of relationship between technology and supporting protests movements. Over the past time there has been a range of social and political causes that involved rights of people. Activists groups are aware of movements that can be a cause of technology. There are different sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc. through which people get attracted towards protests against social cause. It given all information and data on by which protests can be done. In this rules, ethics are violated.
On global scale it is a concept in which ethics and safety of people is considered. Protestors collective action has provided shelter by anonymity in online communication. With increase in expansion of social media, government is not able to control its authorization (Neumayer and Svensson, 2016). There are small groups of activists that create a domestic movement for brining a dramatical change. For this communities have to cross certain barriers. They have to face several issues. By reaching unemployed urban youth of country effort is made to bring some change. Along with this, globalization has also resulted in creating major issues such as climate change, quality of food, etc. It has forced companies for mobilisation process. Besides this, policies of organisation restricts them to modify it s trade off. Example – in 2009 during the G 20 London summit individual engaged in it protested against the financial crisis. This entirely affected the political capacity of organisations. Thus, it is necessary to redesign the approach that is been used in using internet within the societies.
There is ample evidence of how social media is being misused by people in protesting. This can be seen during Arab uprising (Allen and Light, 2015). Also, in 2014 cyber activists wants to shut down ISIS. It started when a Twitter account was affiliated with hacker groups named as Anonymous. It declared a cyber war against ISIS. Its main objective was to show unity against ISIS. After Paris attacks they launched a campaign against ISIS #opParis. This group was devastating against this terrorist organisation. They used computer codes and tools in all around the world to combat ISIS. In a research it was said that more than 20000 twitter accounts related to ISIS was destroyed.
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