Social Movements via Social Media

Social movements are key components for us as a society in order to reach towards our intrinsic values with one another. They are able to touch upon several issues that either hit closer to home or just at a given extent as to a particular person caring just enough about the certain topic in order to feel the need to say something about it in order to make perception needed about them to reconcile with their self image. Now whether that is true or not, social movements have created misconstrued rhetoric and it is difficult for them to be lasting impressions unless the severity of the movement is already huge enough for it to be lasting.

In 1973, Marlon Brando had won an Oscar for his performance in the iconic film series' first picture, The Godfather. Brando had not showed up at all to accept his award and had a Native American female kind fully reject it on camera while giving speech of Brando's take on why he would not be receiving the award. Simply in later interviews, Brando's take as to why he would not accept had been because his unsettling take on how he felt Native Americans had been viewed within the lens of Hollywood particularly. Now as Marlon Brando had been so ridiculed for this particular notion as seen as sign of disrespect, there were two sides of the coin. The marginalized population, but not minority in number, had been of inspiration towards the act and considering it to be of righteousness display for the specific culture intended to be represented.

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Now if the stir up within the media, Hollywood, film audience, and the public had been so mixed in emotion and perspectives, there had been too much rhetoric that had been misinterpreted on both sides. Brando did not hate Hollywood, he just had an intention to show that he wanted more for Native Americans in the industry and he had seen this as a potential opportunity to make something of it. While social media was of no relevance then of course, it had been displayed at some degree within the general public excitement of having "tea" spilled. The lasting effect however had not been so bold, rather it was short term which is what had been connected from Vaidhyanathan in the last chapter of his book, Antisocial Media we have covered for our Social media Class. The utilization of true social media had not been used within this time, but the narrative had been attempted to be created within the media at the given time and as we now use social media to exploit these attempted narratives, it is no doubt that it brings the relevance up to par in order to gain traction but does it really do enough in order to be life lasting if the bickering is existential and the ignorance remains consistent?