I was in a debate last week, 'This House Believes Social Media is Undermining Democracy'. After a lot of thinking and worrying, I think it is. A thread here to explain why I think that.
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Replying to @carljackmiller
I was considering going to that, but, end of a week and I didn't feel like going to London. For your analysis to be meaningful, you have to do the same exercise for Television and Printing Presses.
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Replying to @anomalyuk
Why stop with television and the printing press? Surely we'd have to include writing, oratory, and probably the wireless too?
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Replying to @carljackmiller
You could, but if you're talking about the (immediate) future, you have to compare it with the present and recent past. Comparing it with antiquity might be additional illumination, but it's optional
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Did radio change politics as much as television did? I think of the newspaper era transitioning into the TV era, but I could be wrong.
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