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| All new technologies of communication bring advantages and disadvantages. All such technologies have democratic potential. With new social media, as the arrticles in this issue show, there remain significant questions of accountability, affordable access, digital divides, surveillance, privacy, exploitation, and cultural transformation.
Only connect: social relations in an online world
Jim McDonnell
New media revolution? by Julia Hoffmann and Arif Kornweitz
Pushing the social media buttons by Erin Green
Tweets from Birmingham jail by Matthew Johnson
Using the master’s tools: women’s movements and social media by Wendy Harcourt
Religion and social media: got web? by Pauline Hope Cheong
Social media Turkish style by Nezih Orhon
Social media and migrant workers in Taiwan by Mhike J. So
Why social media are (relatively!) insignificant in Africa by Robert A. White
Experiencing social media across generations by Christian Taske and Frances Forde Plude
Igniting the ‘social’ in networks by John M. Phelan
No pueden ver, pero buscan dar luz a sus palabras por Mirna Echave Mallea
Serving justice in a world of inequality by Andrés Cañizález
WACC-SIGNIS Human Rights Award 2010
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