Summary Of Small Change: Why The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted

With technology comes great responsibility. By depending on technology one is becoming complacent and limiting one’s full potential to grasp new knowledge. This paper will analyze two articles discussed in class “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted” by Malcolm Gladwell and “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr as well as WALL-E. Society at some point will become too dependent on technology without even realizing, affecting the way individuals communicate, think, and learn. Technology will shape our society with both negative and positive effects. Technologies rapid growth is having a lasting effect on our future, where we become desensitized to reality. In the essay “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted” Gladwell argues that social media doesn’t have a great affect in big revolutionary movements, because it creates weak bonds between individuals and doesn’t have a formal structure of ranking. He refers back to
The first example he introduces is the rise in rebellion against racial segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960. The revolt had started with only four African-American university students who were not given equal opportunity due to their race, later congregating hundreds of people without using social networking. The sit in without social media was able to spread to other cities in the South, due to the participants in the revolt and their strong connections to people, unlike online friends whom mostly are strangers. Another example he discussed was the revolution in Moldova and Iran, which are thought to be the result of social media, however they aren’t because social media isn’t widely used in the given countries to spark such great