Has Social Media Reinvented Social Activism?

                                                                                                           Republished by SocialActivism.gr of Athens.

Edited by Ellen Kalisperati

Late this fall, Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article in the New Yorker called “Small Change,” drawing a distinction between traditional activism and its online variant. He argues that our modern forms of social media cannot lead to high-risk activism. “The evangelists of social media don’t understand this distinction,” he writes, “They seem to believe that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend and that signing up for a donor registry in Silicon Valley today is activism in the same sense as sitting at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro in 1960.”

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