stagecraft
The art of writing plays
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- Feb 2022
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seldom
Very rarely
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But if you’re taking on a powerful and organized establishment you have to be a hierarchy.
The most a network could do without leadership is annoy whoever they are against. A hierarchy must be established to make a change.
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With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coordinate, and give voice to their concerns.
4.) no one person can stand up and lead a movement and be the voice when everyone hides behind their phone.
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Facebook pages and YouTube videos were devoted to the Help Sameer campaign.
Even though Gladwell doesn't necessarily agree that social media is where the real change will be made, he notices that it is beneficial.
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evangelists
A person who seeks to convert others to christrianity.
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Emmett Till in 1955,
Wrongfully accused of offending a white lady, he was then beaten and shot in the head, then dunked in the river.
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advocacy
Support
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In other words, Facebook activism succeeds not by motivating people to make a real sacrifice but by motivating them to do the things that people do when they are not motivated enough to make a real sacrifice.
Facebook takes away from real sacrafices.
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These events in the early sixties became a civil-rights war that engulfed the South for the rest of the decade—and it happened without e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Twitter.
Thesis statement
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participants were far more likely than dropouts to have close friends who were also going to Mississippi.
2.) Something about fighting this fight with those closest to us makes it all that much more worth it.
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solipsists.
people who believe we can only prove the existence of oursleves?
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“Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.”
3.) there may have been some spreading of awareness but not where it really mattered
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