Facebook Activism: Burma Case Study
Dec 07, 2014
Instructions on how to use Facebook for activism, using the 2007 "Support the Monks' Protest" page as an example.
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•“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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