Wal-mart watch is a web-site in which it tells people all the negative sides to Wal-Mart. It wants to bridge the gap between ordinary citizens and community organizations concerned about Wal-Mart's unchecked growth and negative impact on our society. They want to change the way Wal-Mart does its business practices to benefit employees and communitys.
This website is aimed to resist Wal-Mart and to open more up to the free market. It wants to take from Wal-Mart and give money back to society.
Its a counter-movement because it resists the free market economy.
On the control side they have the structural power, because they have the control, and they make there own decisions, which effect the town and sometimes the country.
Wal-Mart's power is the money, therefore they are the largest company in the world and they have more money than any other company. They exist in small towns where the majority of the citizens live in also work for Wal-Mart. So therefore they have all power from money, people, and city's.
On the resistance side it is going to be symbolic power because the website is giving there negative thoughts on Wal-Mart to try to persuade everyone to not to shop with Wal-Mart.
ICTs are used because they are easy to produce and distribute. There is a high level of anonymonity.
Ryan Cochrane
Blake Alldredge
Nathan Dysinger
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