The Political Power of Social Media | Foreign Affairs - 0 views
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The event marked the first time that social media had helped force out a national leader.
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How does the ubiquity of social media affect U.S. interests, and how should U.S. policy respond to it?
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social media have become coordinating tools for nearly all of the world's political movements, just as most of the world's authoritarian governments (and, alarmingly, an increasing number of democratic ones) are trying to limit access to it.
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The power of being digitally social, this is an example in the political arena. This is also what Clay Shirky is talking about in a Cognitive Surplus. This is the power of people collaborating and sharing without consideration of cost, distance, time, copyright, law, etc. Do we want to teach children how to ethically participate in this type of environment? Or, just let them go without any skills or discipline?