Title: 
Headings: The Impact of Social Media on Social Movements: The New Opportunity and Mobilizing Structure
The
 
Impact
 
of
 
Social
 
Media
 
on
 
Social
 
Movements:
 
The
 
New
 
Opportunity
 
and
 
Mobilizing
 
Structure
 

Amandha
 
Rohr
 
Lopes
 

The
 
Impact
 
of
 
Social
 
Media
 
on
 
Social
 
Movements:
  

The
 
New
 
Opportunity
 
and
 
Mobilizing
 
Structure
 

Research
 
Question
 

Literature
 
Review:
 
Social
 
Movements
 
in
 
Context
 

1.
 
Opportunity
 
Structures
 

2.
 
Mobilizing
 
Structures:
 
Social
 
Networks
 
and
 
Media
 

3.
 
The
 
Current
 
Debate:
 
The
 
Social
 
Media
 
Literature
 

Hypotheses
 
and
 
Theory:
 
Elaborating
 
the
 
Social
 
Media
 
Argument
 

Data
 
and
 
Method
 

Results
 

Conclusions
 
and
 
Implications
 

Bibliography
 


Content: The Impact of Social Media on Social Movements: The New Opportunity and Mobilizing Structure
The
 
Impact
 
of
 
Social
 
Media
 
on
 
Social
 
Movements: The
 
New
 
Opportunity
 
and
 
Mobilizing
 
Structure
 
Amandha
 
Rohr
 
Lopes
 
Creighton
 
University
 
4/1/2014
 
The
 
Impact
 
of
 
Social
 
Media
 
on
 
Social
 
Movements: The
 
New
 
Opportunity
 
and
 
Mobilizing
 
Structure
 
Amandha
 
Rohr
 
Lopes
 
This
 
paper
 
seeks
 
to
 
explain
 
and
 
test
 
the
 
formation
 
process
 
of
 
social
 
movements
 
by
 
addressing
 
two
 
overarching
 
interrelated
 
factors: opportunity
 
structures
 
and
 
mobilizing
 
structures. I
 
hypothesize
 
that
 
social
 
movements
 
are
 
caused
 
by
 
opportunity
 
structures
 
such
 
as
 
economic,
 
institutional,
 
and
 
social
 
contexts
 
of
 
a
 
country
 
conditioned
 
by
 
its
 
access
 
to
 
social
 
media. Social
 
movements
 
are
 
not
 
created
 
by
 
a
 
single
 
variable
 
but
 
rather
 
by
 
a
 
set
 
of
 
variables
 
that
 
create
 
an
 
interaction
 
effect. Discovering
 
ways
 
to
 
mass
 
organize
 
is
 
as
 
essential
 
for
 
the
 
occurrence
 
of
 
social
 
movements
 
as
 
the
 
grievances
 
that
 
make
 
people
 
want
 
to
 
organize
 
in
 
the
 
first
 
place. The
 
introduction
 
of
 
social
 
media
 
into
 
the
 
discussion
 
is
 
thought
 
to
 
have
 
completely
 
changed
 
the
 
way
 
people
 
are
 
able
 
to
 
organize. In
 
order
 
to
 
test
 
my
 
hypothesis,
 
I
 
use
 
data
 
from
 
a
 
number
 
of
 
different
 
sources
 
for
 
all
 
countries
 
in
 
2008
 
-
2012.