It is tremendously important to subvert the mechanism of social mass communication and using it as a tool to gain power for powerless people like for instance in Egypt and Tunisia, France and the UK
Not resulting from FB efforts or long term vision, but completely up to the people using the tools at hand. Its humans who make changes not technology I am getting sick of this techno-centric approach --AMJ -- w: http://nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl e: [email protected] e: [email protected] On Mon, February 7, 2011 14:49, Rob Myers wrote: > On 07/02/11 12:09, Andreas Maria Jacobs wrote: >> >> Social media is not part of the solution it is part of the problem! > > http://gigaom.com/2011/02/03/gladwell-still-missing-the-point-about-social-media-and-activism/ > > "But as sociology professor Zeynep Tufekci argues in a blog post > responding to Gladwell and as we argued in a recent post here the > point is not that social media tools like Twitter and Facebook cause > revolutions in any real sense. What they are very good at doing, > however, is connecting people in very simple ways, and making those > connections in a very fast and widely-distributed manner. This is the > power of a networked society and of cheap, real-time communication > networks." > > - Rob. > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
