The Revolution Will Not Be Twittered Nor Facebooked
October 1st, 2009 by SocProf and tagged Culture, Media, Social Inequalities, Social Networks, Social Stratification
Because of the Digital Divide thingie:
Well, yes, who has time to post incessantly about the minutiae of one’s life. Who can afford the nice hardware, broadband and software to do that? Who enjoys the professional jobs with a nice degree of autonomy to be checking their Twitter or Facebook accounts while at work?
And the Digital Divide is not just internal to the US society, it is a global phenomenon (click on the image for a larger view):
This, again, goes back to Raewyn Connell’s assertion that the privileged have a tendency to universalize their experience without consideration of the fact that the not-so privileged live under very different conditions. And because the Northern privileged rule the world, they see their new toys as revolutionary toys (how did that work out for the Iranian Revolution). Demonstrating and marching is for suckers and low-class teabaggers who don’t understand how cities work. The Netroots are cool and revolutionary (check out the titles of Markos Moulitsas’s books and feel the revolutionary wind even though he is part of the establishment). I think we know now who has managed to frame and control discourse on the latest issues.
Posted in Culture, Media, Networks, Social Inequalities, Social Privilege, Social Stratification | 2 Comments »
October 2nd, 2009 at 9:20 am
Ick…
The Facebook paedophile ring
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-facebook-paedophile-ring-1796373.html
October 2nd, 2009 at 10:33 pm
@dmayeda, Ick indeed.