Jose Antonio Vargas: It's Not Facebook, It's the People Who Use Facebook - The Diigo Meta page

• 29 Sep 09
  

  Will Richardson

  And here's the third emerging ethos of our social networking era: Online, clinging to their own set of facts, connecting within their own networks, people believe what they want to believe -- one click at a time.
  
  "Society has always had extremists. They just haven't had a public venue that we could all see before," said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, an expert on presidential communication and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. "Language is evolving because of the Internet, and people have no sense of what's appropriate or not. But you would expect that anyone who would ask people if the American should be killed is fully aware of how extraordinarily serious that is. You would expect."

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