Hot damn it's almost like empirical (qualitative) research can give us answers against hot-take headlines. @deaneckles @zeynephttps://twitter.com/achrisafis/status/1070976038581256192 …
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Technology companies were super happy to claim part in Arab Spring (they had a part!) and now want to act like they're irrelevant—except to advertisers, of course, to whom they say they're the place to convince people (they are!). That's why we need *independent* & calm research.
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The gilets jaune trajectory has almost every attribute of social-media fueled protests in my book written many years ago, though even more accelerated. Its history won't be written outside of Facebook. OF COURSE it feeds on collapse of institutional trust, as did all of them.
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I don't think anybody disagrees with any of the points you made below. Where that disagreement lies is on the absolutist, singular causal claim made in that article.
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I agree it's overwritten, and I wouldn't have phrased it that way. (I negotiated title veto in new gig just to try to avoid exactly this issue: need to go viral leads to over-claimed titles). Still an important dynamic to consider outside of one article's claim/language.
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