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February 19, 2016 08:19 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xPF0iF-TP9A/clay-shirky-social-media-turn.html
Clay Shirky: social media turned Dems, GOP into host organisms for third party candidates
In an "essay in 50 tweets," Clay Shirky explains how the growth of direct-to-voter channels has ruptured the mainstream political parties in America, who relied upon party power-brokers to enforce a prohibition on mentioning the third-rail topics that are the fissure lines the parties paper over. (more…)
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/xPF0iF-TP9A/clay-shirky-social-media-turn.html
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