In Solving Global Crises, How Useful Are Hashtags and Likes?
Tiny Spark · Tiny Spark
March 15, 201619m 19s
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Show Notes
When it comes to promises made by social movements, human rights scholar Rebecca Hamilton has heard it all. “Share this Facebook link and you can save the life of a child in Uganda. Wear this bracelet and you can bring peace to Darfur,” she recalls. “The problem is most of the time, it’s simply not true that doing a low-cost action can be very high value to somebody somewhere else.”