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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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
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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Are you saying the odds are against us? Dude. Unthinkable. Thomas Paine would have shriveled in his pants.
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