One misconception I had about civil disobedience from what I’d learned in school is that it’s a reliable means of drawing attention to your cause: your willingness to expose yourself to legal repercussions will communicate to the public how critical you consider the issue to be.
What I learned from witnessing it first-hand is that officials and the media will invent their own narratives about your actions out of whole cloth, and the statement the public thinks you’re making is subject to arbitrary filtering and distortion.
And there use to be these things call tabloids, what is your point?
Asking you what you mean with “new media”.
I don’t really think you define it as “anything that isn’t a tabloid”, because tabloids have the same content as what I understand under “new media”. And because my understanding of “New Media” is basically “alternative facts, just like in tabloids”, and I don’t think you necessary understand it the same way, I am asking.
An impasse only if you decide not to tell what you mean with new media.
But if you do, then obviously yes, then it’s an impasse, as I obviously cannot force you to answer a question.
One misconception I had about civil disobedience from what I’d learned in school is that it’s a reliable means of drawing attention to your cause: your willingness to expose yourself to legal repercussions will communicate to the public how critical you consider the issue to be.
What I learned from witnessing it first-hand is that officials and the media will invent their own narratives about your actions out of whole cloth, and the statement the public thinks you’re making is subject to arbitrary filtering and distortion.
Sounds about right.
When it comes to the media the well is poisoned. We need to teach an entire population how to consume new media and we cant do it fast enough.
Eventually, though, that will stabilize. Then there will be cultural revolutions in that space.
What is this “new media” for you? Because for many it means sources that tell an alternative truth. Usually written in Sankt-Peterburg.
And there use to be these things call tabloids, what is your point?
Asking you what you mean with “new media”.
I don’t really think you define it as “anything that isn’t a tabloid”, because tabloids have the same content as what I understand under “new media”. And because my understanding of “New Media” is basically “alternative facts, just like in tabloids”, and I don’t think you necessary understand it the same way, I am asking.
That’s what Im asking. Not all new media is tabloid hogwashery. So, impasse?
An impasse only if you decide not to tell what you mean with new media. But if you do, then obviously yes, then it’s an impasse, as I obviously cannot force you to answer a question.
Civil disobedience is not meant to draw attention. It’s meant to fight back without violence.
Drawing attention is a protest or a boycott.
Civil disobedience can overlap with both direct action and protest. But that’s my point: we were only ever taught about the latter.
Ok fair, yes.