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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). With the arrival of globally accessible publishing, freedom of speech is now freedom of the press and freedom of the press is freedom of assemblyā€¯ (Shirky 2008, p.