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i want a about known chomsky and twitter
there was an interesting article on
salon dot combine a singer dancin
which points out that noam chomsky of
course has been one of the most
important critics about how big media
drowns out everyday voices to
manufactured consented to control
knowledge
this is something angry with known
chomsky about however
noam chomsky has also on a couple of
occasions now dismissed
new digital communications such as
twitter
social media et cetera superficial
shallow
evanescent
and he specifically said that text
messaging twitter that's sort of thing
is extremely rapid very shallow
communication i think in a row
which is normal human relations it makes
them more superficial shallow in
evidence
and he expanded on this and um... said
let's say for example
twitter requires a very brief concise
form of dot
and so on that
uh... tends toward superficially ality
and draws people away from real serious
communication it's not a medium of
serious interchange
what i find
bout this that i disagree with is that
social media has actually
allowed many more people to have a voice
it is actually brought so many more
people
into the world discussion of politics i
mean look at what happened with it with
iran
lookit each it
so i think it's actually shortsighted of
known chomsky to criticize those types
of communications when they're actually
helping to resolve one of the issues he
points out
is an issue
lack of diversity invoices and drowning
out
minority voices what do you think
they'll
yeah and i also i agree completely agree
and i think that he's not he's out of
touch with the changing world i mean
we're living in a war aware if you hang
on to the old ways you will not succeed
in the worker comp i guess he wants
everybody at this point to take out a
long form pizza paper and bright out
letters as well and send them to the
post office in order for you to find out
what he's thinking well that's what's
interesting about it's funny you bring
that up because if you look at research
from few internet an american life
project
research has demonstrated
that non-whites are much more likely to
connect to the internet
communicate and create content on the
web
on mobile phones than are white people
right so in many cases historically
disadvantaged groups
had actually used social media
and social media technology to find
opportunities that in the past didn't
exist
to say that social media is trivial and
a lower level of communication
i think does not make any sense
particularly in those cases
absolutely and he's going to be you know
we were living in a society where the
digital age guess just where we're at
you can not like it but we're not going
backwards then
to you have to assimilate in you have to
adapt
and that type of mentality is wonder
just not
internet want to add that so he would
have no place
and anna twenty-year from our well i
think it goes further than that and i'm
not a chomsky basher i'm just throwing
these ideas that is food for thought but
when noam chomsky defends the forms of
communication
that he
tends to prefer right printed books
men periodical essays that the answer is
that he puts out
with claims that tweeting and texting
lack of death
he's implicitly suggesting that
non-whites and those in the third world
that rely on these technologies in many
cases
are inherently communicating last deeply
than their white and first-world
counterparts now i'm not suggesting that
knows how to use racist
but what i'm saying is that i don't
think he's considering this
when he says a very plainly
it's it's kind of uh... it's it's
his back dated
empty way of communication i think he's
not taking into consideration
the communities and the populations that
are being served by these new
technologies
uh... and also his way of of doing
things with the books in the writing am
and i'm just going back to that as an m
analogy
he's using the regular panicking writes
a letter
there was a time that people took a
stick and deep inside of eight and i'm
sure they're doing that made them
right and i'll completely different way
in a way that they thought out even more
because amp three scroll mattered
uh... his way of doing things is
inferior
using that same logic
two fifty years before his time naral
asserted all getting into a and that
they may be greedy of noam chomsky in
twitter i like it
