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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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Social media has played an integral part in grassroots communication and participation. It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world.