Politics

In this article, author Malcolm Gladwell makes the point that online social networking facilitate them, Gladwell might be splitting hairs.   Of course the protesters at Greensboro did not have computers or cell phones to help generate national interest.  But their efforts certainly benefited from coverage in newspapers, radio, television, and of course word of mouth from good `ole rotary telephones.  People may not have been able to tweet, but they could certainly pick up the phone and dial, as annoyingly laborious as that might seem to people today.  In other words, social movements and communications technology are not the same thing, and though they might overlap and at times serve each other’s purpose, it’s important not to confuse them. At the end of the day Facebook, Twitter, blogs both micro and macro, IM’s and text