So, I meant to send this last week, but in changing over my blog it got lost in the move. Yet, in light of the missive by Gladwell, what happened here is a case study in the value of social media. The Egyptian government is notorious for its heavy handed, anti-democratic actions. Yet, through the…
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Part II of Whose Tweet Counts Anyways? A Response to Malcolm Gladwell
“We seem to have forgotten what activism is,” writes Gladwell. If activism is defined only as taking direct action and protesting on the streets, he might be right. But if activism extends to changing the minds of people, to making populations aware of what their governments are doing in their name, to influencing opinion across…
Whose Tweet Counts Anyways? A response to Malcolm Gladwell.
Recently the twitter/facebooker/bloggers sphere has all been a-twitter about Malcolm Gladwell of Tipping Point fame’s slam of social media as a tool for advocacy. Seems Gladwell does not believe that social media creates very strong “links”, which especially effects those who would wish to use twitter as an advocacy tool. He states that the twitter…