February 2011
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Odd Future on Jimmy Fallon →
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Odd Future on Jimmy Fallon
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“The intelligent, nuanced commentary online about social media and political change far outweighs the dreck. But what has happened is that I think we, as a society and culture, are still trapped in the old mindset where we either had to be simplistic and certain or nuanced and complicated. Our methods of digesting debates have not caught up to our media system and our technological reality. Instead, the boundaries of the playing field have gotten way less clear, and with confusion comes panic. We don’t have the conventional “message container” cues by which we used to judge an argument (is it being made on television? ignore it. is it being made in a journal? believe it, but know it wont help you very much. does so-and-so making it have a PhD? who cares?) And this panic has created a situation where some folks feel like “everyone” is saying Twitter causes revolutions, even though no one worth reading is actually saying anything of the sort.”
—Too Long For Twitter, too Short for Nieman - Are We Saying That Twitter Creates Revolutions? Depends on Who You Mean By “We”
