Danielle Bevacqua: In Class Writing: Due April 6 2010

I apologize if this isn't meant to be posted on here, but I thought that's what we were told.

Shirky's three steps can be seen in the event of Heather Lynn's activism against Wachovia, starting with the sharingstage. This first stage would be when Lynn decided to make the Facebook page, "Wachovia = Fail." This is the stage that is the most minimal, in which the information is just getting out. During the second stage, cooperation, would have been when people started joining her Facebook group and changing their behaviors to mimick hers. Lynn removed the majority of her money and moved it to another bank. Once others joined the group, it was said that they too moved all of their money out of Wachovia and closed - in some cases- multiple accounts. This stage would continue as more and more people joined the group and shared the same actions. The last stage, collective action, actually would be as previously mentioned where people actually moved their money to other banks. This collective action- the movement of multiple accounts all around the same period of time- by many different people, would be the collective action of the group.