Power of Social Media
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Impact
The use of social media platforms allowed for the social movement of black lives to be reached to the masses around the world. The transition toward a technologic society has eased the way for social movements to be a worldwide issue. The use of #BlackLivesMatter made it an international issue that were present on a larger scale where millions of social media users were able to interact with the hashtag and spread awareness.
#BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013, it was created to a political space where communities of activist could join forces and rely on each other to protect civil rights. It purpose of this hashtag is to promote the hatred treatment of African Americans from all groups by government officials.
" #BlackLivesMatter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society. Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes."(Cullors et al 2012)
"It goes beyond the narrow nationalism that can be prevalent within Black communities.Black Lives Matter affirms the lives of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, black-undocumented folks, folks with records, women and all Black lives along the gender spectrum. It centers those that have been marginalized within Black liberation movements. It is a tactic to (re)build the Black liberation movement."(Cullors et al 2012)
SOCIAL MEDIA
“Social media could serve as a source of live, raw information. It could summon people to the streets and coordinate their movements in real time. And it could swiftly push back against spurious media narratives with the force of a few thousand retweets.” (Bigan 2014)
More than half of people worldwide are under 30. The majority live in rich diverse cities with accessibility to technology, close to half of the world’s population has access to Internet. There are millions of videos, pictures, tweets and post uploaded every hour around the world. At this rate with technology available at our finger tips it makes social movements spread throughout the world for millions of people to view.
"Eight-five percent of African Americans aged 18-29 have smartphones,"(Mirzoeff 2015) making social interaction more worldwide.
““Criminal justice reform, policing reform, incarceration reform—I believe strongly that this has to be the strongest priority of our [next] president
Hillary Clinton
washington dc
“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Atlanta, Georgia