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KEEP READINGCPD Director quoted by Christan Science Monitor on how the internet assists growing social movements
Oct 22, 2010
The Christian Science Monitor interviewed CPD Director Philip Seib about the Internet's influence in the rise of social movements such as Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" which has gone global in a short amount of time. Seib notes, "the Internet only amplifies these movements. I would think we’re going to have more and more phenomena that start national and become global."
He goes on to discuss, "It’s a relatively easy matter for someone in Tel Aviv to say, ‘We’ve all been reading about this on the web. Why don’t we do it?" Seib continued, "I think one of the reasons Jon Stewart is so popular in the US, and this would carry over elsewhere, is that despite the fact that he says this is basically a comedy show, it is also, in many instances, an alternative journalism."
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