Read these excerpts from three primary sources: Source 1

This view of the future comes from John Wilkins (1614–1672), an English clergyman, naturalist, and writer, who helped

found the Royal Society for Natural Knowledge in England:

Yet I do seriously and on good grounds affirm it possible to make a flying chariot in which a man may sit and give such

a motion unto it as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry diverse

men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic. It is not the bigness of

anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship

swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat.

Source: John Wilkins from A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet, book 1, 1640

Source 2

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was a Serbi

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new communications technology has affected the way social movements are organized because nowadays, social movements rely on social networks and the media to get different people with a similar way of thinking in contact, and thus, get them to mobilize for a greater cause.

individuals only participate in collective action when they feel identified with it. is in this aspect that social media becomes relevant, because it guarantees communication among all individuals and organizes the social actions that are going to be carried out, i.e., the social movements.

in addition, being covered by the media is important to validate the message and make it relevant in the social agenda, as well as to reach more people who can share interests, appealing to public sympathy for their cause.

in conclusion, it is by social networks and social media that social movement is given birth; by connecting different individuals with similar ideas and organizing them to mobilize for a greater cause.