Twitter spats are accessible & make for nice conflict narratives in media, but unless you do the legwork, you may be misled about scale..
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Replying to @zeynep
So it was with the Sanders campaign. Focused on mostly irrelevant few online spats, or Sanders himself, media is missing longer-term story.
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So I wrote what the Sanders movement—not the man, not irrelevant online spats—shows about insurgent candidates.https://newrepublic.com/article/133776/split#split13 …
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Replying to @zeynep
Media reported on Clinton's great support from black ppl & older women. So even sillier that Sanders story got stuck on "Berniebro". Blind.
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Replying to @zeynep
but wouldn’t self-organized groups be more prone to BernieBro prob? Org w/o training, lose discipline when difficulties hit.
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@SherriMNichols Great point. Self-organized groups find it harder to police their boundaries, and mount defense to being mischaracterized.1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
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@SherriMNichols The "flamboyant and aggressive few" will be used to define all of you is a problem that has haunted every leaderless group.1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
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@SherriMNichols That said, the Sanders campaign was a campaign with leadership so this shows mismatch between their movement & campaign.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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I think the campaign never knew what to do with the movement, & unlike Obama, movement was less experienced to begin with.
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But BernieBros more than few online spats. Harassment of supers was real; person here thought to be super but not was harassed.
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.@SherriMNichols Sure. But takes very few to create noticeable online harassment; media seems to have no idea how to evaluate scale online.
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