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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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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What's really striking is that unlike Arab Spring countries France has strong institutions of protest and dissent. It's *still* happening like this. That's truly interesting and I don't see how we get at it by ignoring changing public sphere (FB is big part this, obviously).
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Aide note: My memory is that FB specifically didn't really play that up at the time, though Twitter did.
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Yes, Twitter certainly did, and I can try to look up with public statements from Facebook but lots of Facebook people certainly did. And it did play a role! The problem is that neither platform recognized the complexity of their role (at least not at the time).
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