reflections on journalism and activism by @oddletters

To refer to the worldwide protests of 2011 as the Arab Spring is to mark a serious misnomer.

"Gladwell's distinction between hierarchical vs. decentralized movements is a very necessary one-- but the claim that all offline activism is centralized while all campaigns that rely on digital tools are ad hoc and without direction, is a rather sweeping and strange argument."

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"We face at least three filters in the voices we hear - access, language and bias."

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