Reflection 1 - Occupy

Doing research on the Occupy movement was interesting, because I had never studied the protest in depth before. From starting in New York City on Wall Street, the movement has spread all over the country and the world through social media. In my research I visited the orginal twitter page for Occupy, which acted as a significant catalyst in the movement, the original website dedicated to Occupy, and the adbusters page that made the call for activists to Occupy lower Manhattan on September 17th, 2011. I also found it very interesting that the Occupy movement was inspired by the Arab Spring, which I feel most people do not realize. Even today the orginial webpage for Occupy Wall Street shows updates on the Occupy movements around the world, even though the movement has somewhat died out in its original habitat. It seems that the original movement will never die out if the originial website is still disseminating stories about Occupy around the world which embody the views from the 2011 New York City protest. Disseminating these ideas through the internet and social media allows the movement to live on, despite some people saying that it is now extinct.