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THE FOLLOWING IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PEOPLE WHO USE THE INTERNET.
One of the reasons Internet services are so cool is because, when they’re designed correctly, they put you in control of what you see, and how you see it. I take advantage of this when I feel like it, and I’m perplexed that more people don’t. Sometimes, blocking someone on Twitter is akin to hanging up on someone who’s talking your ear off (i.e., filling up your @-mentions) with something you don’t find valuable (i.e., @Dov_jaspamaster’s stonewalling, in this instance).
Some people think my willingness to forcefully end such useless exchanges makes me an asshole. Well, if that makes me an asshole, ask yourself if you’ve ever done something similar. And, if not, ask yourself if you feel like you would have been better off walking away from that person or hanging up on them when you had enough of the conversation. (You remember telemarketers, right?)
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Recently on Al Jazeera, an episode of Empire, titled Social networks, social revolution was aired. I found the following excerpts particularly insightful.
- Clay Shirky contends that social networks offered an urban environment information, like a metropolis for ideas. In his words, ”The densifying of the public sphere in advance of the revolution matters as much to whether or not an uprising turns into a revolution […] as the events on the ground.”
- Amy Goodman explains one of the failures of mass media. She says, ”In the united states, we don’t have State Media, but you have to ask, “In this country, if we had State Media, how would it be any different?” So, when you have the protests, February 15, 2003 before the war in Iraq, millions of people Rocked the Globe for Peace, right before the US attacked Iraq. And yet you get, at best, a major picture on the front page of the papers; you see millions of people screaming. Most people don’t identify with that. But when you hear someone talking—and when was the last time you’ve seen these grassroots activists brought into not the mainstream media, but the corporate media’s halls to explain themselves, to give a face and a name? It’s letting people speak for themselves instead of what we get on all of these networks: this small circle of pundits who know so little about so much explaining the world to us and getting it so wrong!”
I think there are parallels to draw, here. To what, exactly, I’ve yet to see. But they’re in there, somewhere. I’ll find ‘em.