-Adam
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Civil Activism Via the internet!
Gone are the days when refusing to get up from a seat on a buss, or conducting hunger strike are common tactics to raise civil awareness. Now activist's use blogging, twitter, facebook status, etc. to generate traction to their cause. As the article discusses blogging is one of the most popular outlets for generating attention to different social issues/causes. Now the only reason I know this is because it was on the news non stop since april. As most of you have probably heard Miss. California received enormous criticism for her response to infamous BLOGGER Perez Hilton's question in the Miss USA pageant. I am sure everyone knows what the question was about but for those of you who don't know she was asked if other US states should follow suit with vermont and legalize gay marriage. Her response was basically "no" and that is when Perez Hilton began a personal attack/campaign surrounding her controversial answer. I am not going to sit here and takes sides, cause its not important, I am just using this as an example of how the Blogging as the author mentioned can have such a tremendous impact in civil activism. Perez Hilton took it upon himself to dig up as much dirt on Carrie as possible eventually and sending her in to a media frenzy. I understand her response was controversial but was it blown out of proportion by PEREZ HILTON and his Access to the minds of his many follwers? I don't think that this issue would have been such big news had the power of the internet not been involved.
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I agree that the technologies such as the internet and BIG news has taken news and thrown in out of proportion, and on the other side bug news such as the examples that you talked about in the beginning on your blog have be mitigated do to the fact that if you put it online, anyone can see it and copy. I remember when President Obama was being sworn in by Chief Justice Robert’s and Obama because of Robert’s slurred his words and many news stations blew it into proportion questioning whether “Obama was even president?” Now this isn’t exactly activism, but it is just another example on how technology, through people, have the ability to minimize or maximize how controversial they want their news subjects to be.
ReplyDeleteIt's the sign of the apocalypse when some imbecile like Perez Hilton could ruin a career. I'm going to be up front and say that I wholeheartedly support gay marriage, but that doesn't mean I agree with Hilton's whiny criticisms. Who gives a crap if Miss California hurt his feelings by opposing gay marriage? Perez, she's a freakin' beauty contest contestant, for cryin' out loud! It's not like she's running for an important (or even unimportant) political office.
ReplyDeleteThe last name Hilton is synonymous for a pile of hot, useless fluff. (Think Paris.)