Revolution Guidebook Project
Perhaps you’ve seen the myriad other posts on Copper Stream’s World History SLATE Blog, but there is also an equal chance that you haven’t. This unit was all about revolutions: How they begin and how they end, what causes them, and what actually defines a revolution. Do revolutions need leaders, does a revolution need to be successful, and how do revolutions spread were a few of the questions we researched. Through elaborate conversation, a French Revolution role-play, watching short bits of documentaries, and following the current Ukrainian Revolution through tweets and news headlines, we dove into the world of revolutions and emerged fully saturated with knowledge. With this knowledge, we produced our own digital stories that were “guidebooks” of sorts for answering those aforementioned questions.
My digital story investigated the idea of the use of social media in revolutions and how revolutions are much more about The People than they ever have been because The People are sharing their thoughts on this open forum we commonly call the internet, specifically through social media. My thesis is that common people could not reach the world as radically or as quickly through their own words because they did not have the status. People could band together and protest in their respective place, but it was very rare that the entire world would know the thoughts of one person. Now, that’s absolutely possible. Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Youtube, and even StumbleUpon have contributed to revolutions in the past few years. Occupy Wall Street was first started through a URL registry, the Egyptian Revolution was started on Facebook, and my phone will not stop buzzing from updates through Twitter on the Ukrainian Revolution. It’s amazing how intricate the web (pun absolutely intended) of the internet weaves people together and connects one human to another across seas and time zones, across day and night, from an ongoing revolution to a finished one. My digital story examines how and why this connection is so crucial to modern day revolutions. Enjoy!
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