Los llamamientos a la calma cuando aumentan las tensiones suelen llegar demasiado tarde y resultan insuficientes.
- Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media and Democracy, University of Glasgow
Calls for calm as tensions rise are often a case of too little, too late.
It is expedient for politicians to blame online platforms rather than acknowledge their role in producing a toxic political discourse.
Most social media PR blurb is designed to convince the public these tech companies are a benign force for good. What the public really needs is a public service internet.
Social media has played a central role in the mobilisation of violent protests in Northern Ireland. Here’s how to follow along responsibly.
Warning Syrians of approaching airstrikes via social media is helping save lives.
These days all you need to be a revolutionary is a mobile phone and a grievance. Some see what is happening on the streets of Cairo as the ultimate expression of democracy - millions of people using social…
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