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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Technology: Oppressor or liberator? »Technology: Oppressor or liberator?
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ICT's capacity to spread democracy? »ICT's capacity to spread democracy?
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Cyber-utopianism »Cyber-utopianism
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Cyber-utopians overstate the revolutionary potential of the Internet »Cyber-utopians overstate the revolutionary potential of the Internet
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Web campaigns disengage youth from protests
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Internet encourages slacktivism »Internet encourages slacktivism
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This is not at all what we have seen happening in Tunisia »This is not at all what we have seen happening in Tunisia
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Efficient protests must be organized by the official opposition »Efficient protests must be organized by the official opposition
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Online activism is less effective than offline activism »Online activism is less effective than offline activism
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