Emergence of groups Sample Clauses

Emergence of groups. The emergence of such large frameworks has clearly created new xxxx- xxxx for mass communication and event coordination. Groups create and tend to attract like-minded communities of interest, in order to transmit more or less passionate ideas. These kinds of gatherings, after they tra- verse political or ideological matters, may then lead to various forms of “hacktivism“. Focusing on this new role of social networks in the evolution of trends in the world, may be a clever idea for someone who wants to understand mass movements or idea propaganda. Indeed, it has been frequently suggested that the Middle East revolutions have been made possible by these social networks[? ] that have become either vectors of information, or simply the core systems that enable people to gather around the same political ideas. From what we have seen in these revolutions, people gathered through social networks into differing groups that were clearly not in physical contact with each other, but nonetheless were sharing a dream or political ideology.
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