Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation

In the article “Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social media, public space, and emerging logics of aggregation” by Jeffrey S. Juris, he explains the relationships between social media and public space in the #Occupy Everywhere movements. He states that social media contributed to an emerging logic of aggregation in the #Occupy movements. Juris explains how social media helps activists get the word around about their social movement. Before social media, people around the world would have to communicate with each other to start a movement and to get people involved. Twitter, Youtube, Facebook are used by many people around the world and people use it for different reasons like promoting a specific movement or issue. Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook is a good way to promote protesting and to spread the word of a social issue and get people together. The #Occupy movement had occurred on October 11, 2011, and the main purposes for the movement were financial issues in our economy, inequality, and diversity of the racial class. Juris mentions that the logic of aggregation is known to be a cultural framework that is known to shape our interactions with social media and generates patterns of social and political interaction. Therefore, it involves the viral flow of information and subsequent aggregations in a physical space.