How to Think Like an Activist was a very interesting piece of text, the multiple subheadings and overall setup made it feel almost like I was reading a magazine. Syfret gives a lot of credit to the younger generation for being good activists, and states that the voice of the youth is powerful. “Many of the movements that shaped the world we live in today were begun by people…hardly old enough to vote…Powered by the internet…they’re succeeding in capturing the public attention changing minds and attitudes at a scale never witnessed before” (11-12 Syfret).

I had honestly never put into perspective that decades ago the same people who are around my age now were the also ones desperate for change back then. They also touched up on the fact that the internet has essentially ‘sped up’ activism, which is also true but again another thing I hadn’t realized or put into perspective growing up with the internet always being there. Now, instead of change taking years people can informed on a subject in minutes through a trending hashtag or a tweet. But of course real change, whether that be in laws passed or changed still takes time and it will take more than a singular tweet for a moment to form.

Another point that was brought up that I thought was interesting because I’m dualy taking a journalism class was the fact that in the past the media controlled was more in control of what got broadcasted. “Social media and the internet have democratised news and information…’Many people who lacked public platforms 10 years ago…are speaking up” (27-29 Syfret). Going as far as to call the press ‘gatekeepers’ was a really interesting and valid point that I’d never even considered aside through the lense of yellow journalism. But they really were essentially the ones who got to decide whether the noise people would make got to be heard or not in the end.