Guest Speaker: Sarah Gaby (UNC-Chapel Hill, Sociology)
About Sarah Gaby: Sarah Gaby is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is interested in social movements, political sociology, and organizations, particularly as they relate to youth civic engagement. Her dissertation examines the role of youth organizations in shaping activists. She has published recent work on how social movements like Occupy Wall Street utilize online resources, and the interactions between local protest and federal policy during the Civil Rights Movement.
Structure of the presentation
- Introduction of Sarah Gaby made by professor Chip Bruce.
- Introduction by Sarah Gaby
- On Civil Rights Movement
- Occupy Movement (preparation, on the ground and online)
Introduction of Sarah Gaby made by professor Chip Bruce.
Sarah Gaby introduces her interest in Occupy movement and the research she conducted together with Neal Caren.
Has Social Media changed the ways in which social movements get organized? Take a look at Civil Rights movement.
http://youtu.be/gkpzu8FdDDU
How Occupy Movement came about
http://youtu.be/Kn3o250_z64
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Preparations for the Occupy Movement
http://youtu.be/Ux6JlIvokw0
Occupy Movement as it developed on the ground
http://youtu.be/wK5sC5mD06o
Occupy Movement online
http://youtu.be/XAQLNFRMluQ
http://youtu.be/8FgpWm__tRc
http://youtu.be/sfQX1u6Jn-w
Readings
Sarah Gaby and Neal Caren. 2012. “Occupy Online: How Cute Old Men and Malcolm X Recruited 400,000 US Users to OWS on Facebook.” Social Movement Studies.
Clay Shirky. 2011. “The Political Power of Social Media.” Foreign Affairs.
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