Assignment 9- The Power of Social Media Networking

Part ONE- Five Research Questions

Directions: On a blank document write your name and copy the questions. Write the answer after each question. Getting credit for this assignment requires you to do some research,do not write one sentence answers! Use the links at the bottom of this page. Also do your own Google searches. Email it in the usual way when you are done.


Rumors have said that the Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) was started by an email to subscribers of a magazine called Adbusters.

Use the links at the bottom of this page (and your own internet research) to answer the following questions:

1. What is Adbusters and what is the evidence that Adbusters started OWS?

2. What were the 2011 Tahrir Square protests and the 2011 Spanish protests?

3. How were those 2 protests (question 2) similar and/or inspirational to the OWS protests?


The flag of Anonymous

4. Who or what is Anonymous, and how is it connected to OWS?

5. How did the use of social media (email, texting, twittering, blogging, Facebook, Youtube) help the movement get started and stay going?

Directions: On a blank document write your name and copy the questions. Write the answer after each question. Email it in the usual way when you are done. Do not write one sentence answers!

Links for Part One

Exploring Occupy Wall Street's 'Adbuster' Origins
MARTIN KASTE

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141526467/exploring-occupy-wall-streets-adbuster-origins

How 'Occupy Wall Street' Started and Spread
BRIAN GREENE

October 17, 2011
http://www.usnews.com/news/washington-whispers/articles/2011/10/17/how-occupy-wall-street-started-and-spread

Occupy Wall Street: From A Blog Post To A Movement
BILL CHAPPELL

October 20, 2011
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141530025/occupy-wall-street-from-a-blog-post-to-a-movement

Twitter, Live Streaming Create Alternative News Network for Occupy
By Adam Dickter
November 25, 2011 8:32AM
http://business.newsfactor.com/news/The-Full-Occupy-Story-Is-In-the-Tweets/story.xhtml?story_id=121003W8NVMH&full_skip=1

Protesters Look for Ways to Feed the Web
JENNIFER PRESTON
Published: November 24, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/business/media/occupy-movement-focuses-on-staying-current-on-social-networks.html

Live OWS protest Thursday November 17th

http://occupywallst.org/
Live streaming video of today's (Thursday November 17th) protest marking the two month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Rubric for Assignment Eight- Essay/Research Paper

Your essay is on a topic that you chose to research after reading the quotes from the "Occupy Wall Street Day 19" video.

Your must research five different websites to get information about your topic.

Your essay should be written in your own words.

That includes restating (paraphrasing) information you have discovered in your research, and using direct quotations. In both cases you must cite your sources. (in other words you must say who said it and where! For example- Joe Smith of the Daily News said that…blah, blah, blah, etc.)

DO NOT submit a collection of cut and pasted paragraphs from different websites. That will not be acceptable!

Your essay must have an introduction, a body, and a conclusion.

Your essay should be three typed pages in a 12 or 14 point ‘Arial’ or ‘Times New Roman’ font.

Last, you must have a bibliography ( a list of your sources of information) at the end of your essay.  This is what we practiced doing in assignment 8b.  Your bibilography should look just like what you did with the five web pages in 8B and look like this:

John Walke, Extreme pollution agenda in Senate targets lifesaving clean air standard, Grist:a Beacon in the Smog. Grist Magazine, Nov. 10, 2011. Website. Nov 13,2011   http://www.grist.org/pollution/2011-11-10-extreme-pollution-agenda-in-senate-targets-lifesaving-clean-air-

for all five of your sources!

Assignment (8B) Practice citing your sources in a bibliography.

HOW TO CITE INTERNET SOURCES IN A PAPER

When citing Internet sources in a paper, you must be sure to answer the following questions:

1. Who wrote or edited it? (authors/editors/translators)

2. What is it called? (title)

3. What is the name of the Website (usually the name on the 'banner' on top.)

4. What is the name of the organization/company/person who runs the Website (look at the bottom of the page or click on "about us")

5. When was it published? (date)

6. Where did you find it- in a book, magazine, website, newspaper, dvd? (answer- Website)

7. When did you access the site? (the date that you looked at it on the Internet)

The URL address (it must work and take you to the article, not just the home page!)
Here is an example:

John Walke, Extreme pollution agenda in Senate targets lifesaving clean air standard, Grist:a Beacon in the Smog. Grist Magazine, Nov. 10, 2011. Website. Nov 13,2011   http://www.grist.org/pollution/2011-11-10-extreme-pollution-agenda-in-senate-targets-lifesaving-clean-air-

This includes the information you must have-

The Author(s), Title of the Article, Name of web site. Name of organization or company that owns the  site, date published or updated. Where you found it (Book, DVD, Newspaper or Web.) Date of your access (when you looked at it), the URL address.

It is important that the Internet address link actually work. It should take you or your college professor directly to that article on that website. (Test the one above!)

To make a bibliography, you just make a list of these sources on the last page of your essay.

The last thing you do is make the list alphabetical according to the author's name. Go to the links below and create the five citations. Do it the same way as the example above! Don't forget to make the list alphabetical.
When you have done that, email it to me! Thank You.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/nasa-finds-arsenic-life-form/

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2011/05/the_discovery_of_arsenicbased_twitter.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/1202/How-does-an-arsenic-based-life-form-work-exactly

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/27/6730755-arsenic-life-debate-hits-a-new-level

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/12/02/mono-lake-bacteria-build-their-dna-using-arsenic-and-no-this-isnt-about-aliens/

Assignment Eight-Video Interview

Video is another way to present information on the internet. In fact it could be the most powerful way to spread information. You could point to the way that a YouTube video can go 'viral' as evidence of this fact.

For this assignment, we will show a video "Occupy Wall Street Day 19" that was created by teenagers.


As you watch the video, listen for these phrases spoken by the protesters who were interviewed.

1. Corporations are influencing our politics. End the influence of corporations in politics.

2. End corporate personhood.



3. Corporate greed is wrecking our planet.

4. Protesters practice non-hierarchical consensus-based decision-making.

5. There’s a huge inequality gap between Americans.

6. Politicians are creating bad legislation because they’re influenced by corporations.

7. Corporations in our politics have created the war on drugs and stopped us from nationalizing health care.



8. Fight, fight! Housing is a human right. Make Wall Street pay for the Depression that they caused.

9. There should be a 1% tax on all Wall Street Transactions.

10. We need student debt amnesty!

11. Stop all foreclosures.  Stop throwing hard-working Americans on the street because they can’t pay these fraudulent mortgages.



12. The government has to stop cutting funding for education, which will mean that they will have to cut the defense budget. It's a tough choice, but they have to do it!

13. Tax the rich! Make more education programs for the poor, make more programs for cleaning up the environment.

14. Enforce campaign finance limits.

15. Have only individuals be able to contribute to political campaigns.

What controversial issues are talked about in "Occupy Wall Street Day 19"?

Participants in the "Occupy Wall Street" protests made the comments in the list above. For this project you will choose one of the phrases and RESEARCH the topic.

1. Pick one of the phrases. Translate the phrase into your own words.

2. Identify the KEY WORDS in the phrase that you have chosen.

3. Do a KEY WORD search in GOOGLE. Click the links, and look for explanations of the issue or topic.

4. Take notes on a blank Word document page for each article that you find. Be sure to list the key points of the article, and state whether you agree or disagree with the author on the topic. Remember to copy the information you need to CITE YOUR SOURCES!

5. Write an essay describing your opinion on the topic, based on your research that helps support your opinion.


Thank you Camilla S. for your help on this post!-MONZINGO