I will be teaching a class on Social Movements this fall. Instead of covering the basic social movements (such as Ciivl Rights, Women's Rights), I want to spend more time on covering social movements that may (1) impact the mid-term elections or (2) do not receive as much coverage.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a social movement to cover? Why?
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Solon, that sounds like a great class! Obviously there are a lot of ways you could go, but in the spirit of how popular this site is becoming, I feel obliged to point out that blogging itself represents one of the powerful social movements of our time.
Clearly blogging is not monolithic, as it runs the entire gamut of interests, perspectives, and fetishes. But taken as a whole, blogging also operates as a social movement towards realizing the great (quasi-fascistic?) aim of the "information age"--how we get news, how we keep up with Pro Wrestling, how we follow trends in Tahitian Cooking--it's all smaller and more centralized now.
And you may get some enthusiastic feedback from the students by pursuing this route, as chances are very high that a good portion of them will have their own blogs, or frequent them, or know someone who is obsessed with blogging, etc.
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