Protesting everything maximally isn't always best strategy, but neither is it true that inciting protests will always work in your favor.https://twitter.com/JoshuaGreen/status/836545090407518208 …
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Replying to @zeynep
Protests can be great but they're not strategy. Also for town halls, petitions etc. They're methods. *Strategy* has a theory of its methods.
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Replying to @zeynep
A bunch of great questions here.
@jaycaspiankang@mike_bader. I try to grapple with this in forthcoming book but+ https://www.amazon.com/Twitter-Tear-Gas-Fragility-Networked/dp/0300215126 …pic.twitter.com/dqlIrYB8Mb
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Replying to @zeynep
It's the question: what happens to collective decision making when protest culture and tech facilitate decentralized, leaderless movements?
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Replying to @zeynep
Not a minor issue Facing an actor capable of strategic action (government) without counter strategizing ability fuels boom-bust, inter alia.
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The issue isn't decentralization, or the nitty gritty of collective decision making. It's the mechanisms thereof—what do they allow or not.
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My argument is that the "how" of protest movements gets too little attention, and yet greatly influences the "what happens" part.
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