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On January 1, 2010, The Jester began a campaign against Jihadist websites. His first target was alemarah.info, which was the Taliban's website at the time. [4] [5] The Jester posted several tweets claiming to be responsible for the downtime WikiLeaks was experiencing.
These social issues included support for civil rights, women's rights, and LGBT rights movements, and opposition to the Vietnam War. The counterculture also had access to a media which was eager to present their concerns to a wider public.
A countermovement in sociology means a social movement opposed to another social movement. Whenever one social movement starts up, another group establishes themselves to undermine the previous group. Many social movements start out as an effect of political activism towards issues that a group disagrees with.
The Anti-Vaxx Industry (2020) – describes how social media platforms such as Facebook enable the growth of lucrative anti-vaccination ('anti-vaxx') activism (including the finding that 400 anti-vaxx social media accounts reach 58 million followers), and that this has an impact on vaccine take-up, and recommends demonetisation as a strategy to ...
In the US, the social tension between elements of the counterculture and law enforcement reached the breaking point in many notable cases, including: the Columbia University protests of 1968 in New York City, [61] [62] [63] the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago, [64] [65] [66] the arrest and imprisonment of John Sinclair ...
The proceedings are overshadowed by massive protests staged by thousands of demonstrators of every political or social stripe. [455] Mayor Daley's desire to enforce rigid order in the city prompts local police to deal with the mostly peaceful protestors violently, a scene televised on national airwaves alongside the convention's proceedings.
"Hegemony" was conceptualized by Karl Marx and Antonio Gramsci, a Marxist social philosopher who lived in Mussolini's Italy. Because Gramsci was a Marxist, he subscribed to the basic Marxist premise of the dialectic and therefore the contradiction. In his writings Gramsci claims that intellectuals create both hegemony and counter-hegemony.
Social amnesia is a collective forgetting by a group of people. The concept is often cited in relation to Russell Jacoby 's scholarship from the 1970s. Social amnesia can be a result of "forcible repression " of memories, ignorance , changing circumstances, or the forgetting that comes from changing interests.