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Deanna Zandt reveals that social media effects society in a few different ways. The greatest example she gives is the uprising in the Middle East and North Africa. She says that social media “propels ideas of resistance and mass defiance across the Middle East and North Africa (pg. 3).” Social media, such as Facebook and Youtube, connected people around the world to show brutality in many countries. This is crucial when people are seeking for a social change. Unity in ideas also aids in dispersing information that people can easily access to begin a social movement. The Civil Rights movement in the 1950’s and 60’s did not have the internet but they still used the media through news reports to gain supporters. The media was a crucial aspect in the power of both of these movements. This is because media is available to almost everyone and the information can be presented in a way that gains supporters. For example, world hunger is a social problem that nearly everyone agrees exists. To raise money for starving children, activists can set up a website with images and videos of people dying from starvation. These images and videos can also be shared to other supporters around the world. Images and video with strong emotional quality tend to gain more attention for a social problem. Zandt also emphasizes the unity in social media, which also gains power for social change. On the internet, people are connected and can share information and evidence for social change.