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Henry Jenkins >> http://www.henryjenkins.org/
- Gladwell is trying to compare movements (civil rights movement) and platforms (facebook).
- We do not live on a platform we live across platforms, we choose the tools.
Ramesh Srinivasan:
- The success of Algiers' resistance network was its horizontal structure; no point of centrality leaves no point for attack.
- Organization and decentralization need not to be mutually exclusive.
- One cannot compare social media use (passive, little commitment, weak ties) with successful revolutions (require commitment and organization).
- Elements of social media can be utilized to generate and cement ties, spreading awareness via weak ties.
- In the case of Kyrgyzstan Twitter was as a medium serving the purpose of refining a message and philosophy and connecting small but influential groups of activists. (the strong ties made the difference through the medium)
Kevin Driscoll:
- Gladwell's argumentation suffers lacks in technology and history.
- Twitter is a non-prescriptive communication platform.
- The 140 character limit makes it compatible to even old cellphones.
- Twitter enabled thousands of people with internet access to spend days fixated on a geographically-remote street protest in Tehran.
Amin Vafa:
- Emigrated Iranians could follow the protests and provided small bridges between Iran and the English-speaking world.
- Twitter enabled people to act and exercise strong ties (Iranian family, friends) on a transnational scale.
- Gladwell describes the civil rights movement as "disciplined", "precise", "strategic".
Steven Classen:
- Our cultural memory of the civil-rights era is incomplete, the "high-risk" activist movements leave little traces, gaps and discrepancies make research on social movements difficult.
- "High-risk" and "Low-risk" activism can differ based on geographic, cultural and religious values.
- Non-hierachical, network solutions: "Frown Power", Stetson Kennedy or "It Gets Better", Dan Savage effect a slow quiet change rather than large-scale revolution.
- "Real" world activism depends on the tactical selection of social media technologies.