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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. Among these benefits is the ability to connect people using short messages, instantaneously in a public and transparent way that is easily searchable and categorized via hashtags (#) within the platform. 2011; Aday, et al.,