On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, at 02:57 AM, ruth catlow wrote: > On 30/11/16 09:47, Charlotte Elizabeth Webb wrote:
>> Last night I was watching Astra Taylor give a keynote for the 2016 >> Rhizome Seven on Seven event[1], and she made a good point that >> 'purity' re: Facebook (i.e. not being there on principle) is counter- >> effective when it comes to political organising, because it is simply >> where the people are. > We're people here too ; ) > Taylor wrote a book about social media platforms a couple of years ago. It wasn't very good - http://robmyers.org/2014/05/29/the-peoples-platform/ But as your smiley indicates, you know what they mean here. :-) We have more than enough case studies of social media activism censorship and fallout to be at least slightly wary, though. The current round of bannings for right-wing individuals and newsgroups on Twitter and Facebook is something that the left needs to take as more of a warning than it seems to be... - Rob. Links: 1. https://vimeo.com/169714504
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