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Parycek

SMALL CHANGE Why the revolution will not be tweeted - 2 views

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  • The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coördinate, and give voice to their concerns
  • There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.” The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists who couldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
  • The platforms of social media are built around weak ties. Twitter is a way of following (or being followed by) people you may never have met. Facebook is a tool for efficiently managing your acquaintances, for keeping up with the people you would not otherwise be able to stay in touch with. That’s why you can have a thousand “friends” on Facebook, as you never could in real life.
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  • “Social networks are particularly effective at increasing motivation,”
  • But that’s not true. Social networks are effective at increasing participation—by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires
  • social media are not about this kind of hierarchical organization. Facebook and the like are tools for building networks, which are the opposite, in structure and character, of hierarchies. Unlike hierarchies, with their rules and procedures, networks aren’t controlled by a single central authority. Decisions are made through consensus, and the ties that bind people to the group are loose.
  • There are many things, though, that networks don’t do well. Car companies sensibly use a network to organize their hundreds of suppliers, but not to design their cars.
  • The drawbacks of networks scarcely matter if the network isn’t interested in systemic change—if it just wants to frighten or humiliate or make a splash—or if it doesn’t need to think strategically. But if you’re taking on a powerful and organized establishment you have to be a hierarchy.
  • it is simply a form of organizing which favors the weak-tie connections that give us access to information over the strong-tie connections that help us persevere in the face of danger. It shifts our energies from organizations that promote strategic and disciplined activity and toward those which promote resilience and adaptability
  • Parycek on 13 Dec 10
     
    Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell
thinkahol *

What WikiLeaks revealed to the world in 2010 - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com - 1 views

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What WikiLeaks revealed to the world in 2010 - Glenn Greenwald Salon.com

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  • thinkahol * on 29 Dec 10
     
    Throughout this year I've devoted substantial attention to WikiLeaks, particularly in the last four weeks as calls for its destruction intensified.  To understand why I've done so, and to see what motivates the increasing devotion of the U.S. Government and those influenced by it to destroying that organization, it's well worth reviewing exactly what WikiLeaks exposed to the world just in the last year:  the breadth of the corruption, deceit, brutality and criminality on the part of the world's most powerful factions.
thinkahol *

Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy | Video on TED.com

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  • thinkahol * on 25 May 11
     
    By leading the Americans in his audience at TEDxPSU step by step through the thought process, sociologist Sam Richards sets an extraordinary challenge: can they understand -- not approve of, but understand -- the motivations of an Iraqi insurgent? And by extension, can anyone truly understand and empathize with another?
Johann Höchtl

Benefits of Enterprise 2.0 - 0 views

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shared by Johann Höchtl on 01 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Enterprise 2.0 is already demonstrating real business value for many organisations. It has opened up new methods for communication and conversations, and has transformed the way that companies share and access information.Openness encourages participationIf people feel like they can make a difference, they will. The Enterprise 2.0 approach promotes open communications that encourage respect and participation, even across geographic and cultural boundaries. Access to knowledge empowers and motivates people to strive towards common goals together.
  • Johann Höchtl on 01 Jul 10
     
    openness encourages participation
Judith Schossboeck

Twitter in Congress - Outreach vs. Transparency - 0 views

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shared by Judith Schossboeck on 03 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Judith Schossboeck on 03 Aug 10
     
    The paper provides some support in favor of Twitter adoption being driven by outreach reasons, rather than the well-popularized transparency motive. Furthermore, outreach considerations factor into a Republican's perceived benefit more than a Democrat's.
Parycek

App My State - Premier of Victoria - 0 views

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shared by Parycek on 20 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    App My State is a competition to build mobile and web applications that will benefit Victorians. Premier John Brumby launched the competition on 26 February 2010, it will run for eight weeks.
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