Can social media cause social change?
In a recent New Yorker article, Malcolm Gladwell argued that digitally based activism lacks the power to enact real social change. Today, Henry Jenkins responded with a blog post detailing how Gladwell failed to address technology and history, as well as how we should characterize social change. Jenkins uses Dan Savage's It Gets Better project as an example of "slow, quiet change rather than large-scale revolution".
Where do you stand on the power of social media?
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