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Do you think that the social media has brought significant changes in the forms of protest? Argue your case.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Politics and Society

Charles Tilly argued that every era has a limited repertoire of contention. In eighteenth-century Europe it meant grain seizures and effigy burning; from the nineteenth century, marches, petitions and strikes. My case is that social media has produced a third repertoire shift: a significant change in how people protest, though not in what makes protest…

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  • The case for significant change
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