User:Jackyliang/sandbox

Evaluating Articles and Sources

The article of interest is Social Movement

• The article is mostly focused. Although the 3rd paragraph in the introduction that lists numerous social movements related to social media seems excessive. I felt a complete list of social movements instigated and/or facilitated by social media isn't necessary in the introduction.
• The article is mostly neutral. Different theories under "social movement theories" offer different lengths of explanation and discussion, which may in part be due to a bias towards the preference of one theory over another, but it is hard to tell.
• The article focuses a lot on social movements in the western hemisphere and throughout the past couple decades, and so it's missing historical and global perspectives that can also be organized under the umbrella of "social movement."
• Found a broken link to the citation for "Civil Resistance ... from Gandhi to the Present" by Oxford University Press. The website link is broken but the book is still given, so it is still possible for a reader to get the source material by purchasing the physical book.
• The date of the sources span a wide range of decades, and seems mostly up to date. I do think that the "further reading" section can organize its list of books by date instead of author first names. Ordering by date might be a more informative approach to a reader who's curious about the evolution of studies on social media throughout time.
• The talk page is not that active, with comments sparsely posted. The latest is from May 2017. One of the talk comments mirror my sentiment above about the limited scope of the article.
• "Models were now introduced to understand the organizational and structural powers embedded in social movements." - Would love to see more written about this. Examples and such.

Potential Topics to Edit

We wish to make edits to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge article because it is missing a few things on the controversies of the movement, its origins, and its impacts in the years that followed the first challenges.

We wish to add:

• More detailed statistics about hashtag usage and comparing the popularities of different hashtags.
• The rapid but temporary growth of twitter contributors and facebook posts in the month that followed the first post.
• Idea that this "slacktivism" led to actual activism "slacktivism"
• And more controversies debating the worthiness of the cause.