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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). Not surprisingly, there is growing scholarly interest in the mediation of activism and political campaigning.