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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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Social media has played an integral part in grassroots communication and participation. It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). OWS began as a grassroots protest against the inequality, greed and corruption associated with the financial sector of the economy.