Well, the problem with this story is, once again, white people are all up in their own ass and are not paying attention.
Yes, Twitter and Facebook could foment revolution. If revolutionaries had computers, cell phones, and electricity.
My sojourn at the Macondo Chamber of Commerce job skills classes shows me no felon under 30 and few people of color over 40 do. And those who do, are, as Gladwell (who is wrong on many counts) points out, co-opted really from passionate group action.
I need to find out more about Twitter and the green revolution. The same was said about fax machines in the 80s in Panama, I think -- the only news of the revolution, and to the revolution, was via fax and non-gov channels. No shit, Sherlock. The other elephant at the cell meeting is, if a revolutionary flashmob can read the twit, so can the flashgoons. This shows a serious lack of comprehension of what a revolution is. It is not the same as hustling your garage band.
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fj has argued that a great deal more work goes into expressing one's self in 140 characters than it does here, or in conversation. It's a good point; I think in practice it leads to more good argot for kids. But mostly it leads to sexting, which is not so clever. In the immortal prose of the author of the Duke University Power Point Fuck List, quoting an admirer's text msg: So, how bad do you want my D right now?
Sorry, revolution, can't talk to you right now. Got a booty call I need to take.)
( Malcolm Gladwell NYer piece on how successful political action, the civil rights movement, depended on f2f relations and hierarchies, not twitter, which coopts same; enraged twits riposte he's washed-up Old Media )
Yes, Twitter and Facebook could foment revolution. If revolutionaries had computers, cell phones, and electricity.
My sojourn at the Macondo Chamber of Commerce job skills classes shows me no felon under 30 and few people of color over 40 do. And those who do, are, as Gladwell (who is wrong on many counts) points out, co-opted really from passionate group action.
I need to find out more about Twitter and the green revolution. The same was said about fax machines in the 80s in Panama, I think -- the only news of the revolution, and to the revolution, was via fax and non-gov channels. No shit, Sherlock. The other elephant at the cell meeting is, if a revolutionary flashmob can read the twit, so can the flashgoons. This shows a serious lack of comprehension of what a revolution is. It is not the same as hustling your garage band.
(Elsewhere
fj has argued that a great deal more work goes into expressing one's self in 140 characters than it does here, or in conversation. It's a good point; I think in practice it leads to more good argot for kids. But mostly it leads to sexting, which is not so clever. In the immortal prose of the author of the Duke University Power Point Fuck List, quoting an admirer's text msg: So, how bad do you want my D right now? Sorry, revolution, can't talk to you right now. Got a booty call I need to take.)
( Malcolm Gladwell NYer piece on how successful political action, the civil rights movement, depended on f2f relations and hierarchies, not twitter, which coopts same; enraged twits riposte he's washed-up Old Media )
