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What Social Media Cannot Do

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Samuel D. James
Apr 11, 2022
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#1) Social media cannot effect meaningful change.

Freddie deBoer:

Since the internet became a mass phenomenon in the mid-90s or so, there’s been this committed effort to see the technology as a revolutionary tool, an effort to almost will into being new political possibilities owing to digital interconnectivity. During the Arab Spring the press was fill…

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