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Social Media as a Revolutionary Tool?
Season 1 · Episode 44

Social Media as a Revolutionary Tool?

Blueprints of Disruption · Rabble Rousers' Cooperative

May 1, 202357m 21sExplicit

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Show Notes

Can Social Media be used for effective change?

Matt Dusenbury from the Communications Firm, Smoke & Felt joins the studio. We discuss the importance of leveraging these free tools, but also their limitations.

Other items discussed:

  • The accessibility social media provides to movements.
  • The kind of work progressive communications firms do for campaigns.
  • Striking balance between online engagement and in person organizing
  • Are all platforms created equal? What is most effective for getting the message out?
  • Why does it appear the Right's narrative gains so much traction online?
  • How can the Left do better at using these tools?

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