Last night Gladwell published this short piece for the New Yorker. Gladwell revisits his earlier essay which argued that the ties produced by social media (weak ties) are not as important as social ties produced by face to face iteration (strong ties), and thus social media is not a particularly advantageous platform for fermenting social change. [...]
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It’s not the Public Internet, It is the Internet Public.
Posted: 4th February 2011 by Dave Parry in DemocracyTags: Egypt Tunisia InternetPublic Gladwell
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