Tufekci examines modern protest movements and how they are changed with the use of the internet. Her book Twitter and Teargas shows a depth analysis and research on social media influences. She takes additional steps on taking the trends of the mass media, describe outside of the narrow world of political protest and applying them more broadly to social change.
Tufekci shows the true power of the internet and its use for protesting. Showing new capabilities for the people to organize and buildup. She compared the growth of protest, like the six month planning of Martin Luther King Jr’s speech of “I have a Dream” speech to now how within a couple days can be a coordinated plan with the use of social media networks. She explains how modern protest…show more content… Mass media’s near monopoly on attention often meant that the two were conflated, and an analysis of attention would often be confined to analyses of media. Now that mass media no longer hold a monopoly on attention, neither censorship nor the competition for attention operates in the same way” (31). Tufekci explains pluralism, it shows people at grassroots level are using social media to get their message across in ways their voice was heard by many without being stalled by traditional walls guard and filter media. She explains how there are advantages and disadvantages with these movements because they are consensually led by people who can control the media. In the past protesters and those opposing the government has to fight corporations who control social media. She explains how authoritarian governments like Egypt and Turkey are constantly pressured by media broadcasters to not show any coverage on actions that make the government look negative and cause bad publicity. It shows a whole new set of generations a means to pull a political power that would be recognize worldwide. It just shows how close of a relationship between users and the social platforms they
