How digital technologies and social media went from being hailed as tools of freedom during the Arab Spring to being blamed for upheavals in Western democracies
To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves. Tweets: @zeynep , @carnage4life , @fugueish , @mathewi , @david_body , and @justinhendrix See also Mediagazer Tweets: Zeynep Tufekci / @zeynep : “Power always learns, and powerful tools always fall into its hands. This is a hard lesson of history but a solid one.” My new piece on the digital road from Obama '08 to Tahrir to Trump—for MIT @techreview. #longform http://www.technologyreview.com/ ... http://twitter.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Fantastic article by @zeynep detailing how social media went from being hailed as tools of spreading democracy during the Arab Spring to its greatest threat. One of the few people who gets how insidious microtargeted political ads are to our system. http://www.technologyreview.com/ ... Chris Palmer / @fugueish : “...in the 21st century it is the flow of attention, not information (which we already have too much of), that matters.” http://twitter.com/... Mathew Ingram / @mathewi : Great piece here from @zeynep, who has been watching and thinking about the impact of social technology since the early days of the Arab Spring http://twitter.com/... David W. Body / @david_body : “Security isn't just about who has more Cray supercomputers and cryptography experts but about understanding how attention, information overload, and social bonding work in the digital era.” http://twitter.com/... Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix : How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump: To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves, says @zeynep in @techreview http://www.technologyreview.com/ ... See also Mediagazer