I let out a huge sigh of relief after reading the results of a Pew Internet & American Life Project survey released today. It wasn't because the survey didn't find social media is isolating us inside digital bubbles. Rather, I was relieved because it didn't find social media polarizing perspectives and harming democracy. According to Pew's website: "We measured 'perspective taking,' or the ability of people to consider multiple points of view. There is no … [Read more...]
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Social Media, Democracy & the Death of the ‘Big Lie’
June 16, 2011 by Monica
Filed Under: Communications, Relief & Development Tagged With: big lie, democracy, jacques ellul, joseph goebbels, propaganda, social media
Social Media: Democracy’s Ruin or a Better Planet?
September 23, 2010 by Monica
With summer over and more time to read in the rainy fall days ahead, I decided to finally buy The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change, a book by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine that I've been meaning to read since it came out in June. So I drove to the nearest Borders, but it didn’t have the book. Then I drove to Barnes & Nobles. It wasn’t there either. Then I remembered the words of Jacques Ellul in Propaganda: The Formation of … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Books, Causes, Relief & Development Tagged With: allison fine, beth kanter, book, democracy, jacques ellul, networked nonprofit, propaganda, social media