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Small Change. Why the revolution will not be tweeted
Small Change. Why the revolution will not be tweeted Posted on 05 October 2010 by jrobesYour (Brilliant) Responses to Gladwell on Social Media and Activism - Alexis Madrigal - Technology
The comments in response to my thoughts on Malcolm Gladwell's latest New Yorker piece about social media and activism are so extraordinary that they deserve their own post. Here are highlights, but in situ.
Malcolm Gladwell Is #Wrong
Essay Maria Popova Malcolm Gladwell's take on social media is like a nun's likely review of the Kama Sutra — self-righteous and misguided by virtue of voluntary self-exclusion from the subject.
Sorry, Malcolm Gladwell, the revolution may well be tweeted | Leo Mirani | Comment is free
Kashmir protesters are using social media to disseminate news and views.
Social media platforms may not create revolutions, but they sure can amplify them.
The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted (Unless It Is) : All Tech Considered
Excellent piece by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker, casting a sceptical eye over the optimistic view that social networks can and do lead to increased social action. His argument is not that they cannot have a good impact, but that the sort of impact they might have is very different from the hard work of political activism that brought about the end to segregation. Old style activism depended on ‘strong ties’ – people who probably knew one another, and were very committed to a single cause, with their lives and values tied up in it.
Kester Brewin » ‘The Revolution will not be Tweeted’ | Real Sacrifice will never happen online
At four-thirty in the afternoon on Monday, February 1, 1960, four college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. They were freshmen at North Carolina A. & T., a black college a mile or so away. “I’d like a cup of coffee, please,” one of the four, Ezell Blair, said to the waitress.
