Facebook Activism: Burma Case Study

•“Saffron Revolution” 15th August 2007

•fuel protests that grew in size due to anger at the government

•Support the Monks’ Protest page on Facebook established September 20th by American student Alex Bookbinder

Group InformationEvents

Group Officers

Photos Posts

Articles Posts

Videos Posts

The discuss area.

The Wall

Click to Invite

News Feed

Click-Click

MediaGrowth of group

Media-press coverage on the group

Growth of group

Media-press coverage on the group

RSVP

Easy break down of the events

Time- Starting and endingLocation-Starting and ending

Contact detail for organiser-email telephone and website.

The Burma activists used the event tool to organize global protests in October of 2007 in 100 cities around the world.

•No control over the layout.

•Information disorganized

•Spammers

•Recipient limits on messages

•Can’t target

• Too popular (many advocacy groups now on Facebook)

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