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Priscilla Yudofsky uses Facebook for her petition "for lower fuel prices at the pump" launched in May 2018 . Maxime Nicolle manages a "Fly Rider Info's bloc" group to mobilize on a citizens' initiative referendum. Éric Drouet in Paris, January 19, 2018. Zakaria Abdelavi / AFP Social media is used to territorialize the debate at the municipal level. They are the ones who describe the legislative impact on the local, and denounce scandalous cases. They operate an adaptation of social issues to the micro-space of the small town – which the national mass media no longer do, they who rarely leave the beaten track and focus on the few spectacular violent facts, reducing the project to nothing.
Of peaceful protest of majority civil disobedience. By contrast, happenings on social media have interrupted the mass media flow, through suspension or diversion: serial “Acts”, false appointments, obligation to cover in strategic places for the cause, roundabouts. The forces in power seem to have underestimated the capacity of social networks to phone number list create a dematerialized public space in which political practices can take place. Social media have a structuring effect on space and on local protest and they show the extent to which central power is disconnected from its base. The dominant media strategy consisted of denouncing an erosion of empathy, which brought the general public on their side.
“Do it yourself” and “hack” type activism strategies In the United States, the lubricating mechanisms of civil disobedience combine resourcefulness and mutual aid in small groups, often based on a mastery of technology in the form of "do it yourself" (DIY). Its digital version emerged in the late 1960s with Stewart Brand and the publication of the Whole Earth Catalog to support the ecological movement of agrarian communities (before becoming the WELL , the oldest website in existence and a pioneer of cyber counter- culture). Portrait of Stewart Brand. Steve Jurvetson/Wikimedia , CC BY It is an experience of the individual in a very controlled relationship to social media and real networks, so that the group can mobilize.
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