Identify how the protests examined in the studies by Brym et al. and Vraga et al. made use of new media technologies in their activist efforts. Synthesize the conclusions of Brym et al. and Vraga et al. with the respect to the authors’ evaluations of the protestors’ uses of social media to advance social change.
According to Reed, “The political impact of new media technologies will depend on how the informational and communicational powers of the technologies are put to use. If information gathering is simply used to further already existing political beliefs, then our political lives will be no richer, and may in fact become more polarized and dangerous. […]