Volume : I, Issue : XII, September - 2012

An Analysis Of The Influence The Role Of Modern Technologies In Social Movements

Aditya Mahadevia

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Walter Lippmann insisted that “... Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.” Social Movements have emerged as group responses to the various events that take place in any given society. They are large informal groupings of individuals or organizations focused on specific issues political or economical or social, etc and carrying out resisting or undoing a social change. The world is geå day by day with advancements in human society and technology. With the changing dimensions of time, needs and wants human society have adapted social movements as a trait to fulfil their unstoppable wants. With the advancements in the field of media and technology especially in area of information technologies, social networking sites such as blogs, facebook, twitter, etc has become the chief tool to disseminate quick information and mobilize the mass. The recent success story of the ANNA HAZZARE movements is the best example in this context. The aim of the paper through this doctrinal study is evaluate how the advancements’ in information technologies and social new media has both positively and negatively affected the social movements across the globe. The aim of the author is to analyse the influence the role of Modern technologies in Social Movements.

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Aditya Mahadevia An Analysis Of The Influence The Role Of Modern Technologies In Social Movements Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.I, Issue.XII September 2012

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