Social protests and online communities.pptx

1. Social protests and
online communities
Jianjun Huang

2. Concepts and forms of protest
• Disagree with wrong opinions
Online Petition
Assemblies
Parade
• Strong objections to statements or actions of others
insurrection
• Civilians or society facing the government to speak out
Strike

3. World change
caused by
protests
• Religious Reformation
• Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783
• The French Revolution
• Haitian Revolution
• Civil rights movement
• Arab Spring
• Occupy Wall Street

4. The dark side
online
communities
1. Irresponsible speech
• The Internet is an anonymous community, we have
some dissatisfaction in life to the Internet to vent out,
we each do not know each other. It is a place to
release stress.
2. The "dark side" of the cycle
• The dark side of the online community will not
disappear, and there will even be a "dark web“.
• Searching the web in the last twenty years, you can
see that at any time people are dissatisfied with
society and life, these people do not delete their
comments.
• These statements are made by many people, and
there is no end to the user's exposure to this
information

5. Gathering of discontent,
protest of unity
1. Everyday discontent, online community
discontent and leaders with ideals who can
organize a campaign to paralyze the city.
2. Due to the existence of online communities
and protests for various reasons, it poses a
challenge to the country's rulers.
3. Unresolved protests may divide the country.
4. The existence of online communities
magnifies the failures of those in power, and
each new member can quickly access previously
missed information through the community.
5.The online community as a whole, any
negative information may cause rapid spread
and affect the image of the country.

6. Use of
networked
protest
1.Protest connected with money
Some of the unemployed will join the protests because of money,
and the online community may be responsible for and lead the
“payroll“.（Most of them don't want to end protesting because
they see it as a job with a good salary.）
2. Rapidly expanding protests
Receiving the influence of the online community, the protest
members must be diverse, they come from different ages, different
countries.
3. A shift in the protest situation
Some "protesters" with bad intentions will destroy public property
as their numbers grow.
4. Military-like transfer speed
The presence of online communities allows for quick and effective
diversion of protesters. They can quickly organize a protest on the
local by slogans, and the government in most cases is too late to
react because of the slowness of the bureaucracy

7. Recent protests of online
communities connecting to reality
• Mahsa Amini protests
• Amini, a 22-year-old woman, was arrested by
police on charges of wearing a hijab "out of
order. While in custody, Amini was pronounced
dead.
• Video on the Internet shows protests in
southern Iran that continued into the early hours
of the morning, during which police opened fire
on demonstrators.
• There was also a series of videos that went viral
online, which fueled the protesters' anger even
more, so the Iranian government blocked apps
like “Instagram” and “Whatsapp”.
• It is also considered to be the toughest network
blockade imposed by the Iranian government
since the 2019 Iranian protests.

8. Summarizing online communities
and social movements
• Features of the online community
• 1 Resource access function 2 Daily life contact function 3 Organizational
management support functions
• A protest is a collection of individuals whose existence is not only
realized by the individuals themselves, but also by people outside the
group.
• The needs of both the individual and society are an important basis for
the formation, existence and development of groups.
• The online community is in the middle of this, it has a connection to
individuals and to social reality
• And the basis of protest is to attract more people and carry out more
activities, so the existence of online communities is similar to 1+1>3
• 1= Basic Protest， Online Community 3= Greater influence than
traditional, greater challenge to heads of state.