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Underline the role of social media in contemporary social movements and describe its challenges.

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  • Politics and Society

Manuel Castells calls social media "mass self-communication": many-to-many messaging that bypasses the gatekeepers of state and corporate media. India had over 1,007 million broadband subscribers in December 2025 (TRAI), so these platforms now form the basic infrastructure of protest. Social media can do a great deal for movements, but it also creates new vulnerabilities.

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