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I responded to this article: Online social movement

Talk:Online social movement

This is what I wrote: "While the article maintains topic relevancy throughout (doesn't veer off course from the title), it presents an opinionated, poorly sourced version of online movements. The article is written in personal-essay format and relies incredibly on vague sentences and inserts credible sources very abruptly. It's also interesting to note that while the article chooses to dive into both the positive and negative consequences of social media and the Black Lives Matter movement, that it only presented one side for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. In its future section, it doesn't mention anything about the controversy surrounding social media's role in certain movements.

~Aileen"

Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

•Everything was relevant

Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

•The article feels neutral, because it fleshes out both sides of the criticisms towards online activism. At the same time, it also seems to be favoring a positive view of the effects of social media on movements

Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

•The article cites some movements such as the ALS Ice Bucket challenge but don't discuss it's detriments and social implications or even link to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Wikipedia article

•It did, however, discuss both benefits and detriments of social media to the Black Lives Matter movement, so I thought it was interesting it did not do the same for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

•The links work

•The sources support the claims in the article, but the sources themselves are also vague

Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?

•There's a section titled "The Future" which is supposed to detail what expert predictions for the future of social movements is speculated to look like. I do not believe this section is credible or very reliable. It reads more like a student essay than other sections of the page: laced with opinion about an optimistic future, only citing one "expert". The nod to Vanessa DiMauro in the article feels very thrown-in without any preamble or reference to her role in the social movement community.

•The sources, for the most part, seem neutral and cover both the positive and negative consequences of the role social media played in some movements

•Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

•It's slightly outdated, but only because the pace of social movements happens so quickly

•It could be updated easily with movements that have happened in the last few years

Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?

•There are only 2 comments, the first one is titled "Terrific Article"

◦Comments include that it did a good job of defining both online movements and physical world movements, showing how the two fed off of each other.

•The second comment was titled, "no it's not"

◦Comments included that the article was "badly worded, vague, repetitive, and poorly sourced". It talked about how online activism is different from genuine social movements, and that this article conflates them together

How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?

•The article is part of the Sociology WikiProject and the Internet WikiProject and Internet Culture WikiProject

•The article is rated fairly poorly as Start-class and flagged as having multiple issues because it is written like a personal reflection and states the editor's personal feelings

•It also doesn't provide sufficient context. It is supported by the social movements task force

How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

•People who critique the article tend to talk less from personal anecdotes and point out facts about the way the article is

User:aileenxgui/possiblearticlestoworkon

/Possible Articles to Work On

New social movements

- adding recent social movements

-adding timelines of when social movements started popping up in different countries

Free software movement

-I could add a section about the thought group: democratization of information

-add different open source libraries that have been made in the last 5 years

Me Too movement

-surprisingly, there aren’t many sources tied to the me too movement

-I could contribute by adding details from various sources

-there are a couple countries missing that took part/felt the effects of the me too movement that I could add