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22 Feb 2011
February 22nd, 2:08am 0 comments

Twitter, Gladwell, and Why Social Media's Revolutionary Potential Isn't (Really) About Egypt

The impact I think isn't about the events are they were happening, but how we document for posterity. That in tagging tweets with a hashtag like #jan25, we were not only ensuring that they were included in information that was circulating in the moment. We were also making a declaration about its relevance and inclusion into the historical document of that moment. In lock-step with the recognition of a public as such is the increasing collective self-awareness of the historical. What is potentially transformative is the ability to collectively participate in the process of historicization, to influence the terms and organizing criteria for inclusion into the historical discourse through meta-data. And that ability is dynamic, accretive, and fluid in ways and at a scale that simply wasn't possible before. Not to mention that the first major tag that blew up was a date -- a clear recognition of the historical moment.
via convergenceculture.org

Inzichtelijk stuk met een niet eerder gehoord ideeën over de rol van sociale netwerken in de huidige revoluties.

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