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Web campaigns disengage youth from protests

Morozov: The internet as a tool of protest actually disengages many youth from taking part in actual street protests.

Morozov develops this argument in an interview with the BBC (Stephen Sackur, HARDtalk)
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Web campaigns disengage youth from protests
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Internet encourages slacktivism
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This is not at all what we have seen happening in Tunisia
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Online activism is less effective than offline activism
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