Your final essay (1500 words). Answer ONLY ONE of these three questions:
1- How do authoritarian regimes use mass media to control social movements? Use a case study.
2- Discuss the role of social networking sites (e.g., Twitter) during social movements. Use a case study.
3- “The Internet destroys old communities and creates new ones, is expressive of a monopoly of knowledge yet concomitantly contains subversive potential”. Critically analyze this viewpoint.
Instructions:
1- You must comply with the guidelines on bibliographic referencing contained in The School Guide to Harvard APA-Style Bibliographic Referencing.
2- Essays should be well illustrated with reference to relevant and contemporary examples. If you choose to use a case-study, this must include significant and sustained discussion of on one specific example. Any case study analysis should develop, illuminate and illustrate the general issues raised in your essay.
3- Read the rubric carefully.