Ah, here's an example of that corruption I was talking about!
As the digital realm becomes all pervasive we must be aware that there are strings that can and will be pulled behind the scenes. This is actually pretty damn awesome! In a scary way, that is. And leave it to those crafty Russians to be the ones behind it.
"we can now see how social media has become the battlefield of a new war for freedom of speech"
Here's the story of PROTEST!
We've seen social media at use in the Arab spring and it looked like it would play a role in Russia as well; as people have been calling out their leaders for rampant corruption. BUT they've figured out a way to negate protesters social media advantage. By inundating twitter with information they've drown out the relevant and made it useless.
I believe this was one of the worries I had voiced in our distance reading seminar... the availability of all this information isn't necessarily a good thing. We lose sight of greatness. With the so much text available to us as scholars perhaps we're just burying what's important. Too much information can be a bad thing.
Beware the dangers.
It was noticed this time but I doubt that will always be the case. Thing can and will be subtly guided from behind the scenes.
