Changing The World

The text 'Changing The World ' is written by Nicholas Mirzoeff . He is a visual culture theorist and a professor of Media , Culture , and Communication at New York University . He started with the introduction about EZLN(Zapatista Army of National Liberation / Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion National) and its function why the group was formed . The group was mainly formed to create alternatives to globalization for the local maya and other groups , concentrating on civil rather than armed resistance . He also mentions about the financial order broken down due to peoples money was converted to repay international loans by the government . 

In the sub heading of 2011 and after North America : he focused on social media and other forms of communication . FaceBook was used to communicate news and dates for action . Social Media has catalysed the movement in ways that had not been seen before . Then about occupy wall street is about visual activism and visual thinking . A call was launched to 'Occupy Wall Street' by a canadian magazine Adbusters in july 2011 . Later than a Tumblr called 'WeAreThe99%' was created to allow people share their stories and to represent themselves . Tumblr is an easy to use blog site that is really popular among teenagers mow-a-days . Spray here was a social movement about distribution of photographs and video on social media showing police violence . Thousands of people watched video of pepper spraying of three young women by a new york police department apartment officer . 99% Tumblr and the pepper spray video went vital because their audience were adapt at sharing and disseminating media content . Perhaps visual imagination , visual thought ,and visualizing combine to make words that live in and seek change based on Nicholas Mirzoeff to make the world look better .