Assignment 9 -The Power of Social Media Networking - Research Question Help

Part TWO -Help and Hints for Questions

Please note that you can use your own internet searches in addition to these links!

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

• You might find conflicting stories about if Adbusters started OWS. Report on all of them, whether yes or no!
• Adbusters is a magazine and a group of people who work there. Adbusters is described as 'anti-consumerist'.  What does that mean? You must give a definition for anti-consumerist or anti-consumerism.
• Give at least three examples of Adbuster campaigns as examples of their anti-consumerism beliefs.
• Get a picture of a typical Adbuster magazine cover.
• Get a picture of an Adbuster poster.
• Here is a link that could help you- http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/occupywallstreet.html

Question 2- What were the 2011 Tahrir Square protests and the 2011 Spanish protests?

• These are two separate things and must be researched in different google searches!
• This is a link that may help you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution
• Another-http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/21/spain-reveals-pain-cuts-unemployment
• Another-http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/29/spanish-protests-occupy-people-together 

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

• What this question is asking is what do the Egyptian, the Spanish, and the Wall street protests all have in common? How are they the same?

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

• You would need to google search  'anonymous group'
• You would try to find out what they stand for (what their beliefs are) and what kind of things they do.
• Get an image for Anonymous.
• Here is a link that may help you-http://www.anonnews.org/?p=press&a=item&i=1185
• Another- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/anonymous-threatens-fox-news_n_1032701.html
• Another-http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-09/tech/anonymous.facebook_1_facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-denial-of-service-attacks-user?_s=PM:TECH
• Another-http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/05/anonymous-denies-psn-outage/

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

• This question is about how did using cellphones and computers and everything connected with them help the people protesting get information, spread the news,  and stay in touch with each other.
• Use this link- http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/business/media/occupy-movement-focuses-on-staying-current-on-social-networks.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1323202161-J2wIGgz8RXkXVVqq0T1sYw
• And this one- http://business.newsfactor.com/news/The-Full-Occupy-Story-Is-In-the-Tweets/story.xhtml?story_id=121003W8NVMH&full_skip=1