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1、Social Media as a Tool for Protests The role that social media plays in instigating protests has been raising increasingly peoples awareness these days .The rapid development of Internet services lead the protests activity to be organized and widespread .Social media is considered effective for prot

2、est even in highly censored areas like Iran and Chinawhich may cause a new period of political debate all over the world. A new research led by Doctor Sandra GonzalezBailon from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at Oxford University , in collaboration with colleagues from the university of Zaragoz

3、a , Spain , led by Doctor Yamir Moreno ,finding the relationship between social media and protests subtle and intimate .Social Media themselves , as researchers observed ,have irreplaceable value .They are tools that minimize the cost of recruitment and garner huge crowds in the most swift speed .Ho

4、wever ,the lethal drawbacks imply that it cannot be the most effective tool which could be relied on to initiate protests .The effectiveness rebates dramatically in situation of government disruption . Though social media is an effective way of organizing protests ,it could not be the best for sever

5、al certain reasons .As part of media itself ,social media allow a revolutionary core to widely spread the message , its training program and operation plan .However , they do not create or instigate protests movements ,they only allow members of such movements to communicate more easily .Cyberspaces

6、 are always imaginative that make no behavioral effect to the real movement .By which it means ,actions will never be accomplished if nobody is going to execute them offline .One serious problem for use of social media is the solutions to cope with government disruption .It is so fragile as the poli

7、tical censorship goes deeper and harsher .Once social media were intercepted ,the process of spreading and planning will be extremely hard to continue.Furthermore ,social media restrain the actions of protests by message exposure .The problem with social media is that they subvert the leadership of

8、a movement while opening it to a broader membership .The call for action may spread like wildfire before a movement is sufficiently prepared ,which can put its survival in danger. Due to their widespread diffusion and easy accessibility ,core organizers might had been scouted early before the moveme

9、nt started .Securities and equipped police may had been arranged in advance to prevent the success of movement so that the protests would probably fail and forced to stop .The lack of confidentiality among protesters could be the fatal weakness for a campaign to move on .The features shown help the protests to be powerful and developmental in process while keep it away from the best tool for protests. In conclusion ,for social media to be the decisive tool ,there is still a long way to go with problems needed to be solved .MLA :Internet Institute of Oxford university(OII) ,2009