reflection on the franch revolution

The events of Student’s French Revolution began in March 1968 when a small number of prominent poets and musicians, and 150 students, occupied an administration building at Paris University at Nanterre and held a meeting in the university council room dealing with class discrimination in French society and the political bureaucracy that controlled the university's funding. As a result, the university's administration called the police. After months of conflicts between students and authorities at the Paris University at Nanterre, the administration shut down the university on May 2, 1968. The revolution began with students the workers and teachers joined the campaign, after that mainstream singers and poets joined when the heavy-handed police violence came to light. All of this was directly broadcasted on the radio station and shown on television the next day. This mass media coverage of the events influences the goals of the reform by making it reach all people in French who were opposing the de Gaulle government. Also for this campaign there was a slogan and posters that were spread in universities and on streets which shows how the leaders of this campaign were serious about spreading the goals of the reform as much as they can, and here was the role of mass media who were broadcasting the news of the revolution that helped in accessing countries outside France like America and Mexico. The mass media effect resulted in rushing out the actions and we can see this when workers had occupied roughly fifty factories by 16 May, and 200,000 were on strike by 17 May. The following day was 2 million and then ten million were on strike the following week. This shows how the mass media fastened the gathering of people and as a result it fastened achieving the goals of the reform. One of the slogans that were used in May 1968 was "It is forbidden to forbid" which reflects how the committee of the reform were using the media as a weapon to reach all segments of