Sunday, January 30, 2011

Malcolm Gladwell -Samll Change

The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coördinate, and give voice to their concerns. When ten thousand protesters took to the streets in Moldova in the spring of 2009 to protest against their country’s Communist government, the action was dubbed the Twitter Revolution, because of the means by which the demonstrators had been brought together.

2 comments:

  1. this is a power of social networks & Internet...
    People need to learn the usage...

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  2. thats true zill.but in the article he mentioned that it is not because of twitter that the revolution happened.twitter has only mere on it.

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