Expectations and Reality: Opinion of the European Union in Ukraine
Journal: Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
Year: 2015

The internet has had a profound impact on how political scientists understand social movements. Using websites like Facebook and Twitter, demonstrators are able to share and organize their ideas, to develop political strategies, and recruit supporters. Activists communicate with one another and these messages can be analyzed to find patterns in how social movements frame themselves in reaction to current events. In short, the internet has an unprecedented capacity to show how political groups fo