{"id":1055,"date":"2019-09-13T13:38:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T19:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/?page_id=1055"},"modified":"2019-09-13T13:38:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T19:38:42","slug":"social-media-as-a-platform-for-social-change","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/our-individual-pages\/social-media-as-a-platform-for-social-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media as a Platform for Social Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Social media has given the average person a voice that goes\nbeyond their immediate family and circle of friends. How they choose to use\nthat voice can vary wildly. Most of us use that voice for mundane, everyday\nthings, like selfies and pet photos, but some use it for something much bigger.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have personally never really thought about the effect that\nsocial networking and social media have had and continue to have on social change.\nHowever, after reading and viewing all of this week\u2019s online content, I am\noverwhelmed by the extent to which social media can affect social change. Some\nof the examples made me cry from sadness or from joy; others absolutely terrified\nme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ways in which people use social media to affect change are\nnumerous and varied. They include using images to spread love and prevent war\n(tears of joy), bringing attention to unjust acts (tears of sadness), showing\ndisdain for a corporate entity\u2019s actions, or launching influence campaigns to disrupt\nanother country\u2019s election process (terrifying).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the positive side, each generation has become more and\nmore connected through social media and millennials are now the biggest group\nto use their social networks to advocate change. Posting has become as\nimportant as volunteering or donating, because it brings awareness to important\ncauses. I think social media works so well for social change, not just because\nof the breadth of people you can reach, but because of the creative, visual\naspect of it as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went out to Facebook to see what recent posts I could find for social change and I found one posted \u00a0just an hour previous of this writing by a church I frequent. Even after everything I read this week, I was still rather surprised that it was that easy to find. The post was a repost of an article<\/a> with side-by-side covers of both a Girls\u2019 Life magazine and an example of what that magazine cover could be in a less stereotypical world. I\u2019ve included it here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What fascinates me most about it, besides that the cause is\nclose to my heart, is that it stemmed from a different article comparing Girls\u2019\nLife to Boys\u2019 Life magazines. A graphic designer named Katharine Young saw the\narticle and was moved to create her own version of the cover. The articles were\nboth from a few years ago, but the social issue is still pertinent today, and\nnow years later it is still popping up on social media. So not only does social\nmedia provide a channel for social change, an immediate voice, but it also\nprovides a permanent example to be revisited and reused for future change. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Social media has given the average person a voice that goes beyond their immediate family and circle of friends. How they choose to use that voice can vary wildly. Most of us use that voice for mundane, everyday things, like selfies and pet photos, but some use it for something much bigger. I have personally … Continue reading “Social Media as a Platform for Social Change”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":1057,"parent":81,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1055","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1055\/revisions\/1058"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joannadunlap.com\/5665fall19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}