The Views of Gladwell and Baron In Dennis Baron and Malcolm Gladwell’s writings, they are both discussing the use of social media. In Baron’s essay “Reforming Egypt in 140 Characters?”, he claims that although social media is popular in the world of revolution, revolution can indeed happen without it. He uses information about governments arresting individuals and preventing revolutions from taking place by using social media to maintain control of the people of the country. Gladwell similarly expresses how social media is not necessary through his article, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”. In the reading he discusses how although social media is useful things like weak ties, government laws and miscommunication make it possible for more mistakes that would not have happened without using social
…show more content…
Some of those limitations are language barriers, government laws, and a lack of resources needed to be involved with social media. Gladwell brings in another blogger who states, “There was no Twitter Revolution inside of Iran.” (316). Claiming that if western countries were simply not trying to reach out in a way the Iran Revolution could understand. Say that if they were they would have considered using Farsi the national language for Iran. Baron mentions that although the Iran protests were tweeted worldwide only nineteen percent of Tunisian have online access meaning that only a few have access to Twitter. Although they both agree that there are few downsides in social media, their biggest disadvantages differ. From Baron’s view, the biggest disadvantage is censorship in communist countries. In China, for example, sites like Facebook and Twitter are banned and other medias are highly censored. Things that western countries are extremely aware of like the Tiananmen Square Revolution are almost completely unheard of to the actual citizen of the
Some of those limitations are language barriers, government laws, and a lack of resources needed to be involved with social media. Gladwell brings in another blogger who states, “There was no Twitter Revolution inside of Iran.” (316). Claiming that if western countries were simply not trying to reach out in a way the Iran Revolution could understand. Say that if they were they would have considered using Farsi the national language for Iran. Baron mentions that although the Iran protests were tweeted worldwide only nineteen percent of Tunisian have online access meaning that only a few have access to Twitter. Although they both agree that there are few downsides in social media, their biggest disadvantages differ. From Baron’s view, the biggest disadvantage is censorship in communist countries. In China, for example, sites like Facebook and Twitter are banned and other medias are highly censored. Things that western countries are extremely aware of like the Tiananmen Square Revolution are almost completely unheard of to the actual citizen of the