What Social Media Meant for the Mass Protest Decade
On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, Vincent Bevins discusses why the horizontalism of the 2010s mass protest movements didn’t quite work.
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What Social Media Meant for the Mass Protest Decade | Tech Won't Save Us with Paris Marx
On this episode of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast, Paris Marx is joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss the mass protests of the 2010s, the role that social and traditional media played in them, and why the horizontalism of those movements ultimately didn’t work.
Vincent Bevins is a longtime foreign correspondent who has worked for the Washington Post, Financial Times, and LA Times. He’s the author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution.
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On this episode of the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, I’m joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss the mass protests of the 2010s, the role that social and traditional media played in them, and why the horizontalism of those movements ultimately didn’t work.
Vincent Bevins is a longtime foreign correspondent who has worked for The Washington Post, the Financial Times, and the Los Angeles Times. He’s the author of The Jakarta Method and If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution.
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