Donald Trump may be unfit to be America’s president,but he clearly is a master of social media. His often outrageous tweets absorb earned the real-estate magnate-turned-politician more than 7m followers on Twitter. And most messages are seen by millions more because they are forwarded thousands of times and rep extensive coverage in mainstream media. Mr Trump’s campaign is thus proof of how important social media absorb become to politics and all kinds of collective action. How is this changing democracy?Political scientists absorb long pointed out that social media make it easier for interests to organise: they give voice and power to people who absorb neither. For instance, they helped rep Black Lives Matter, or a movement fighting violence against African-Americans,off the ground, according to a recent study led by Deen Freelon of the American University in Washington, or DC. But research into another effect has only just begun: social media are also making politics and collective action more “chaotic”,argues a unusual book called “Continue reading
Source: economist.com