Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Calling into question the revolutionary potential of social media

This is a fascinating talk with a Belarussian academic who posits that social media, far from being the tool for social consciousness and revolution that we've come to think of in the context of the Middle Eastern uprisings, may in fact merely sedate people and facilitate the tracking of people by governments.  One more example of diminishing returns to technology.

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