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herefore, attempts to outline their effects on political action are too often reduced to dueling anecdotes
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two perspectives on the role of social media in non-permissive environments, the instrumentalist versus environmental schools of thought.
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Throughout the Cold War, the United States invested in a variety of communications tools, including broadcasting the Voice of America radio station, hosting an American pavilion in Moscow [...], and smuggling Xerox machines behind the Iron Curtain to aid the underground press, or samizdat.”
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t is in this second, social step that political opinions are formed. This is the step in which the Internet in general, and social media in particular, can make a difference.
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one of the main forms of coordination is what the military calls ‘shared awareness,’ the ability of each member of a group to not only understand the situation at hand but also understand that everyone else does, too. Social media increase shared awareness by propagating messages through social networks.