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Malcolm Gladwell’s Small Change

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Malcolm Gladwell’s article, “Small Change” describes the structural differences between social media and traditional activist movements. But is this structural difference enough to call this shift in activism revolutionary? Throughout the entire article, Gladwell emphasizes the word that the students who joined the sit-ins across the South during the winter of 1960 describes the movement as a ‘fever’” (Gladwell). This term is important in unpacking whether or not the structural differences really were revolutionary. A fever in medical terms, is when the body is abnormally increases in temperature. The importance of understanding this definition is because a fever is a response and a symptom to an issue in the body and not the actual cause or reason behind an issue. In the context of the article, the response and symptom of the social injustices as Gladwell presents are seen through the historical events of Greensboro sit-in in the 1960’s, the Mississippi Freedom Project in 1964, the