Blogs/Social Media and Revolutions

Blogs and social media have been used to start and transform social movements/revolutions and connect people all over the world. Here we examine five examples of BSM social movements: Brexit Vote, House of Representatives Sit-In, Black Lives Matter, Ukraine Revolution: #Euromaidan, Arab Springs Uprising, and Occupy Wall Street.

British vote to leave European Union (Referred to as Brexit):

• The New York Times—‘Brexit’ Talk on Social Media Favored the ‘Leave’ Side
• BBC—5 Social Media Trends After Brexit Vote
• The New York Times—‘Brexit’ Debate Even Divides Cats (and Dogs) on Twitter
• NPR—Shock, Rage And Gallows Humor: A Brexit Backlash On Social Media
• CNN—Disbelief, shock on social media as Brexit is confirmed
• Slate—Brexit: How much of a generation gap is there?
• Slate—What Brexit Looks Like to the Rest of Europe
• Attn—Donald Trump Tweets About Brexit

#NoBillNoBreak House of Representatives Sit-In

• NBC News—How Social Media, Live Video Fueled House Lawmakers’ Sit-In
• The Observer—#NoBillNoBreak—How Political Strategy Met Social Media in the House of Reps
  • #NoBillNoBreak Twitter Infographic illustrating how conversation on social media unfolded
• The Wall Street Journal—With TV Cameras Off, House Democrats Broadcast Their Own Sit-In
• CBS News—#NoBillNoBreak: The revolution will be live streamed
• Deadline—“Social Media Told Our Story,” Rep. John Lewis Says As He Ends House Democrats’ Gun Control Sit-In
• Salon—Live-streaming a movement: The Democratic sit-in shows how technology has made American politics more transparent
• The New York Times—C-Span Delivers on Sit-In, Even With Cameras Off

Black Lives Matter

• Wired—Social Media Helps Black Lives Matter Fight the Power
• Daily Beast –Officers Fired for Anti-Black Lives Matter Social Media
• The New Yorker—The Matter of Black Lives
• The New York Times—‘Our Demand Is Simple: Stop Killing Us’
• CNN—The Disruptors
• The Washington Post—Black Lives Matter Leaders Vow to Continue the Movement
• NPR—Public Figures Struggle With Social Media Boundaries After Dallas Shooting
• The New Yorker—After Dallas, The Future of Black Lives Matter
• USA Today—Obama calls for mutual respect from Black Lives Matter and police
• NPR—Dallas Shooting Adds to Pessimism on Social Media

Ukraine Revolution: #Euromaidan

• The Huffington Post—Tweeting the Revolution: Social Media Use and the #Euromaidan Protests
• The Washington Post—Social Networks and Social Media in Ukrainian “Euromaidan” Protests
• Bloomberg—A Look at Ukraine’s Social Media Revolution (video)
• Forbes—If You Doubt That Social Media Has Changed The World, Take A Look At Ukraine
• National Geographic—The Twitter War: Social Media’s Role in Ukraine Unrest

Arab Springs Uprising

• Wired—Social Media Made the Arab Spring, But Couldn’t Save It
• Mic—Twitter Revolution: How the Arab Spring Was Helped By Social Media
• The Pew Research Center—The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings
• The Huffington Post—Social Media: Enemy of the State or Power to the People?
• The Guardian—Egypt five years on: was it ever a ‘social media revolution’?
• The Huffington Post—From Arab Spring to Autumn Rage: The Dark Power of Social Media
• The Huffington Post—Changing the Face(book) of Social Activism
• The Huffington Post—Social Media Can Help Build Arab Governments Too
• The Atlantic—So, Was Facebook Responsible for the Arab Spring After All?
• The Guardian—The truth about Twitter, Facebook and the uprisings in the Arab world
• AlJazzera—Taking power through technology in the Arab Spring
• Institutional Investor—From Egypt to Ukraine, Social Media Now Allows You to Share Revolution
• Stanford—The Impact of Social Media on Social Unrest in the Arab Spring

Occupy Wall Street

Twitter account: @OccupyWallSt

• Technology Review—The Anatomy of the Occupy Wall Street Movement on Twitter
• The Huffington Post—Occupy Wall Street: Social Media’s Role In Social Change
• The New York Times—Protesters Look for Ways to Feed the Web
• CBS News—Occupy Wall Street uses social media to spread nationwide
• The Economist—#Occupytheweb
• Reuters—From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world
• The Huffington Post—Occupying Wall Street 140 Characters at a Time
• The New York Times—Occupy Wall Street Activists File Suit Over Control of Twitter Account
• Plos One Journal—The Digital Evolution of Occupy Wall Street
• UNC Paper—Occupy Online: Facebook and the Spread of Occupy Wall Street