A Comparative Analysis of Social Media's Role in Foreign Issues: Activism vs Incitement
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Capstones - Winter 2024
Global movements regarding social justice and human rights have continued to rise in number since the 1960s, fueled by the international acknowledgment of these fights for resource mobilization. With the use of Social Media, issues of human rights, the fights of which previously had been limited to within states, have begun to cross national boundaries, finding equal fights from foreign countries (e.g., the #FreePalestine movement on the Israel v. Palestine argument fought from America [Cervi 2022]). The previous audience of media coverage- has become the media coverage. Opinionated material, oftentimes under-educated, on serious topics, has become prevalent on Social Media platforms. With this, the final question arises: How beneficial is social media in dealing with foreign issues?
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