Political campaigns fav donations via Twitter (audio)
Political campaigns fav donations via Twitter (audio)
- September 15, 2015
- Mimi Ito, anthropology and informatics professor and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning is quoted in Marketplace Sept. 15, 2015
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From Marketplace:
But will the people who pontificate online actually pay up, or will they stick to
being so-called “slacktivists”? Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist at the University
of California, Irvine, defines "slacktivism" as “the sense that if you just like something
or share something [on social media] you’re contributing, but not really making a
big difference.”
For the full story, please visit http://www.marketplace.org/topics/elections/poltical-campaigns-fav-donations-twitter.
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