Social Movements and Technology
So, researching MRSA (again/still/whatever).
Interesting comment from this article: Officials shut down all 22 schools in Bedford County for cleaning today in an effort to keep the illness from spreading, after students at Staunton River organized a protest overnight Monday, using text messages and social networking sites. On Tuesday, the student organizers led the Bedford County schools superintendent, James Blevins, on a tour of the Staunton River school to show him the state of its sanitation, particularly in its locker rooms.
What would happen if there were a draft? I think we'd see a change from the current apathy. Do you think politicians are afraid of a potential response by the Facebook generation? Heck, Stephen Colbert can get a million people in his facebook group, pretty much overnight. That's a scary amount of response (not to mention insanely cool).
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posted by Lauren @ 8:50 PM
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Are they afraid? I'd peg it at unlikely. I simply don't see the requisite level of respect demonstrated towards digital communities for that to be the case. Most politicians seem to regard online interaction as little more than a way of distributing press releases. A few - Obama, for example - have given digital information flow enough attention to imply that they consider the idea to be something significant, but by and large I think that the graybeards running the place think of the internet as nothing more than 4chan and WoW, even if they don't know those names in particular.
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