Post by afifatabassum on Mar 11, 2024 7:01:25 GMT
A few days ago, Malcolm Gladwell, in the columns of the New Yorker , argued that Facebook, Twitter and the like do not contribute to generating any real social revolution. To do this we need a hierarchical organization that guides action and a movement based on strong bonds between people, which pushes them to perform gestures that require sacrifice. On the contrary, social media tends to favor weak ties and encourage simple but not very concrete gestures (liking, joining a group, retweeting). Yesterday The Economist relaunched the debate on its homepage by hosting a thesis close to Gladwell's positions and one against. The first, using my world map of social networks , argues that these services are not sufficient to give people more opportunities for expression and to undermine the ability of authoritarian governments to control. In fact, from the map it is clear that in countries such as Iran, China, Vietnam, the government favors state social networks and any ploys to escape control are the prerogative of only a minority.
The second thesis underlines the ability of these means to contribute Brazil Phone Number to transferring part of the power, of expression and action, from the center to the peripheries. In a world where information cannot be controlled, abuses of power would tend to become more difficult. In my opinion, the new collaboration and sharing platforms have enormous potential, but they still remain enabling means. To impact political and social reality, the ability to build an organization, not necessarily hierarchical, that is based on a shared culture and leverages common motivations will always be needed.Without any official announcement, Facebook opened Places in Italy (here are the features of the service ). It happened yesterday in Australia and days ago in Japan, Canada and the UK. Facebook Places can be accessed from a mobile device, via the Facebook client or by pointing the browser to touch.facebook.com . At the moment the places database does not seem bare, this is probably due to some agreement made with some service provider or it has been populated by third-party services such as Gowalla (whose check-ins have already been enriching.
Places for a month). Unlike similar services such as Foursquare or Gowalla characterized by a playful mechanism that encourages compulsive check-in to win a coat of arms or become mayor of a place, Places is a simple feature of the publisher tool (the one that allows us to leave a classic message of state). This should ensure less obsessive use, at least until third parties start developing games and applications based on it (like SCVNGR ). Now all we have to do is see if the power of the numbers of the most famous social network in the world will be able to clear and make geolocation services mainstream . Update: recognizing Vincos Blog for having broken the news in Italy, Allfacebook and Inside Facebook have announced the launch of Places also in France.
The second thesis underlines the ability of these means to contribute Brazil Phone Number to transferring part of the power, of expression and action, from the center to the peripheries. In a world where information cannot be controlled, abuses of power would tend to become more difficult. In my opinion, the new collaboration and sharing platforms have enormous potential, but they still remain enabling means. To impact political and social reality, the ability to build an organization, not necessarily hierarchical, that is based on a shared culture and leverages common motivations will always be needed.Without any official announcement, Facebook opened Places in Italy (here are the features of the service ). It happened yesterday in Australia and days ago in Japan, Canada and the UK. Facebook Places can be accessed from a mobile device, via the Facebook client or by pointing the browser to touch.facebook.com . At the moment the places database does not seem bare, this is probably due to some agreement made with some service provider or it has been populated by third-party services such as Gowalla (whose check-ins have already been enriching.
Places for a month). Unlike similar services such as Foursquare or Gowalla characterized by a playful mechanism that encourages compulsive check-in to win a coat of arms or become mayor of a place, Places is a simple feature of the publisher tool (the one that allows us to leave a classic message of state). This should ensure less obsessive use, at least until third parties start developing games and applications based on it (like SCVNGR ). Now all we have to do is see if the power of the numbers of the most famous social network in the world will be able to clear and make geolocation services mainstream . Update: recognizing Vincos Blog for having broken the news in Italy, Allfacebook and Inside Facebook have announced the launch of Places also in France.
