Masashi Yamada
NHK NEWS WEB on October third said the demonstration around Wall Street has continued for over two weeks, and over seven hundred people was arrested on October first. Most of the people who joined in the demonstration are young generation, and they demand the improvement of wage differentials and high unemployment rate.
There are two points on the news. The first is that they use twitter and facebook to gather the participant of the demonstration. This situation resembles ''Arab spring"" from one point of view. Both of them use Social media, and this demonstration teaches us protest activity is inseparable from Social Media.
Another point is the people who are related in Wall Street aren`t interested in solving this problem.
Look at youtube. This shows Wall Street people look down on the people who participate in the demonstration, and it is said that there is serious conformation in America. Their relationship will give bad affect on America in the future.
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It was surpring! It was very large-scale demonstration. Today, people in Japan don't hold demonstrations as this. And this event was happened in New York which was the center of the world's economy. And participants are young generation. I think that this two points have significance. Moreover, today, people in the world can use the internet and facebook. So, they can gather and hold demonstrations easily.
ReplyDeleteOh, sorry. This comment was posted by Kako Furukawa.
ReplyDeleteI'm interested in a point that most of the people who perticipate in the demo don't have clear purpose. I will watch this news to know how the demo finished and what people can get by the demo. Narumi Tsunashima
ReplyDeleteIt really shows us the power of the social media.
ReplyDeleteThese days, social medias like twitter and facebook is becoming the information source for people and the power of social media is becoming extremely big. We should soon be aware of the power of the social media.
Shuhei Wada
The link "information" doesn't work - could you please fix it?
ReplyDeleteAnd could you please add your opinion about the matter? I am especially interested on the second matter concerning this news item.
Ms. MacGregor