Support by Story, for Social Media as Revolutionary Facilitator

http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/05/09/t...rebellion/

Quote:But the significance of the incident goes far, far beyond these lessons. It is revolutionary – in the original sense.

For the first time in the history of Israel, and perhaps of the world, the internet is providing the basis for a rebellion of the soldiers against the army.

Quote:Until this week, such a rebellion seemed impossible. When Ariel Sharon deployed the army in 2005 to evict a few thousand settlers from the Gaza Strip, no soldier dared to refuse. Now, with the capabilities of the social media, the story could end quite differently. The next time the army is ordered to remove a settlement, there may be mass refusal carried by the internet.

There is a message in this for every army in the world.

A new historical era has begun. Any army can rebel by internet.

Mapoui ,

Glad to see you are embracing this new Era .

Again I ask that you review Dr. Paulo Gerbaudo research thesis  !!

pdf file  8)

http://www.tweetsandthestreets.org/wp-co...uction.pdf

BTW ....have you gotten your Twitter account and Smartphone , as yet ??  :-\

embracing what..what mus I embrace  what I already knew?

my method of thought  makes it certain that I would look at all sides of a thing, a development, an evolution to see its possibilities.  that is what i have been saying from the start about social media.

it is tool, a facility like all such and its potential for revolutionary can be utilized for that purpose.  but like everything else it is many sided..it can also be used against the revolution, against progressive ideas and developments..and to pre-empt them all-together

I posted this link to bring the debate into perspective.  if I believe social media can advance a progressive purpose and agenda I have I will use it.  while it is still there that is part of its purpose.  but it is not an end in itself for progressivism.  it is just a tool

but YOU have not purchased and subscribed to such Tools...

still being an armchair critic