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Evgeny Morozov – The Folly of Technological Solutionism (2013)
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Review – Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics (2010) The initial enthusiasm over new media’s potential, such as blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, as a means for activists to...
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Breaking Through the Information Blockade: Participatory Journalism and...
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