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Jared Cohen: Is "Social Media" Really Changing the World? - 1 views

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shared by gweyman on 21 Oct 09 - Cached
  • "Social media" is merely a way to describe new tools in an old and narrow paradigm where we measure success by how many people are reached.
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      gweyman on 21 Oct 09
       
      I tend to agree that the term social media is used most on twitter by marketers interested in boosting hits, traffic, retweets, followers etc. but not really improving understanding or information flows.
  • The term "social media" as we know it today appeared in July 2004 as a reference to participatory media like blogging, wikis, social networks, and related technologies. This is all well and good if technology was still primarily about connecting people to information, which is really the essence of media. However, this term has become obsolete in a world where technology has become a critical tool for connecting people not only to information and ideas, but also to other individuals, entities (NGOs, companies, governments, etc.), and more recently actual resources
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      gweyman on 21 Oct 09
       
      I don't understand the argument here. 'Social' necessarily defines something that is between people and groups. Why doesn't he suggest an alternative phrase?
Ed Webb

Op-Ed Columnist - Iran, Jews and Pragmatism - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 16 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 16 Mar 09
     
    As Mr Cohen notes, his series of articles on Iranian Jews has provoked a lot of protest in the US. Whether or not one agrees with him, it's good to see these issues being aired and discussed.
Ed Webb

Why some Israelis are taking to social media to expose sexual harassment - Al-Monitor: ... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 06 Feb 16 - No Cached
  • It is safe to assume that if these affairs had been exposed before the era of social networks, Magal and Shalom would have pursued their political careers, at least as long as no complaint against them was filed with the police.
  • The tremendous power of social networks creates a hugely effective pressure group without the need for any form of legal process
  • The watershed in the fight against sexual harassment in Israel occurred in 1998, with passage of the law banning sexual harassment. The legislation, initiated by women, was considered at the time one of the most progressive in the world because of the precedent it set, recognizing the phenomenon of sexual harassment in the workplace and seeking to address it through the criminal code. The strength of the bill was in its definition of sexual harassment as a criminal act, but this was also its inherent weakness. Women were naturally and understandably reluctant to pay the price entailed in filing a police complaint and facing cross-examination on the witness stand in court. Absent a police complaint, the serial harassers, such as men in positions of power, could continue to operate uninterruptedly in the workplace.
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  • recall the notorious comment made in 2003 by Tel Aviv District Court Judge Zion Kapah, who said a 9-year-old victim of a sexual offender “displayed a promiscuous character,” had initiated some of the encounters and enjoyed part of them
  • Women are able to take action in the public sphere without having to go through the legal system. In fact, the social networks are game changers in the fight against sexual harassment, and the new rules of the game are far more effective than the criminal code.
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