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| How social media changed protest | How social media changed protest |
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| By Dominic Casciani BBC News home affairs correspondent | By Dominic Casciani BBC News home affairs correspondent |
| Over the past month, many parts of the UK have witnessed student-led protests against tuition fees and the end of grants in further education. | Over the past month, many parts of the UK have witnessed student-led protests against tuition fees and the end of grants in further education. |
| On television, the scenes have looked like a typical demonstration: people standing around in the cold waving placards while police run around after trouble-makers. But what's beyond doubt is that social media has played an important role in the anti-cuts demonstrations, but is it changing the nature of modern protest? | On television, the scenes have looked like a typical demonstration: people standing around in the cold waving placards while police run around after trouble-makers. But what's beyond doubt is that social media has played an important role in the anti-cuts demonstrations, but is it changing the nature of modern protest? |
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| Single acts of anarchy being carried out instinctively by disparate groups with no single controlling centre, reducing infiltration / detection by security services, if you like guerrilla style tactics. Potentially more damaging than any organised TU / Peace demos could ever achieve.....the latter gets 2 minutes coverage with disputes over real numbers of demonstrators..... | |
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