Social Actions
Social actions are important for the social justice issues as they help to promote and communicate them. At the same time, it should be stressed that many of such actions are silenced due to the lack of organizational and other resources. Presented paper aims to identify the ways in which the social media including the Facebook are efficient in regard to the social justice issues and how they can be used to ensure equality in the USA.
Social actions are connected to the social media and networks in the way that the latter serve as a contributing factor employed for organizing, mobilizing and directing the people with the minimum resources engagement. The innovative social media have had a crucial impact on the processing of Arab revolutions. Some of the reports even called the events as ‘digital rebellion’ or ‘digital democracy’ since the main data on protests, pickets, and boycotts was provided on the Facebook and Twitter pages (Lindsey, 2013). Due to the new age it was to collect thousands of people in limited time conditions by the means of these social networks. In addition, the video demonstrating the unrests, the responses of the government, the possible movements etc were shared on Facebook as well. Traditional mass media also were used to portray the situation in the Middle East. The images covered current events happening in all parts of territories within Arab region. Some of the media surfaced the current situation while showing the key history moments of Arabian nations. The same applies to the U.S. in case certain protests are initiated. In this regard, the USA Today (2016) reports that the social media have been flooded with the images of protests around U.S. organized by Black Lives Matter. They were held in response to the fatal shootings of African-Americans by police. Based on that, it should be stressed that due to the overall effectiveness and speed, the social media have become an important tool for communication and the supportive element for the right to assembly and the right to protest. In such a way, the American citizens are equipped with the more instruments to stand for the social justice matters in the USA.
Additional benefits of social media as transmitters of the social actions refer to the following. These tools are easy to use. One can organize daily correspondence, send and receive electronic messages and save them on computers. Messages are fast and delivered at once around the world. No other form of written communication is as fast as they. When one replies, he or she can attach the original message so that when you answer, the recipient knows what the person is talking about. This is important if one gets hundreds of messages daily. To send a message one does not need to use paper. They are environment friendly and save a lot of trees from being cut down. Messages of social media tools can also have pictures in them. Finally, the use of social media does …
