Hey you Phds, MDs, JDs, software engineers, and various gifted and privileged people: There's this popular idea that social media has no power to influence people and therefore you shouldn't bother.
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Ask yourself what you are doing that is more important than working toward justice in the world. Speech is powerful. This dumb website is the most powerful speech platform in the history of the world. Use it.
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Speech is powerful & this platform has potential to create massive cohesion (look at use in Libyan revolution), but it requires more than people tweeting about injustice and RTing what they perceive as creating a desirable policy mandate. I don’t know what that ‘more’ is, though
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I assume there are smart people thinking about this, but I’m yet to see a sociologist or network theorist explain the mechanics of social media for social change, understandably. Lots of people are talking, but it’s spinning wheels, without the structure or friction for movement
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Probably also worth noting that the Libyan rev. ended up being an unmitigated disaster. So getting a powerful and positive result is still mostly a theoretical.
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