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.
A medium affects the society in which it plays a role not only by the content delivered over the medium, but also by the characteristics of the medium itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message …
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Yeah yeah, I know my McLuhan as well as the next guy. But the effects of social media, I would propose are vastly different than the effects of the internet as a medium, just as the effects of cable news are different from the effects of previous modes of tv news
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