As Mathew says: "It’s not that there is anything earth-shatteringly new in the piece, mind you. But I think it does a great job of describing how digital “word of mouth” — in other words, social networking of all kinds including Twitter, IM, Facebook and so on — has become a dominant means of news delivery for young people in a way that I’m not sure old geezers like myself quite grasp, no matter how often people describe it"
The Times sums it up: "In essence, they are replacing the professional filter — reading The Washington Post, clicking on CNN.com — with a social one. (...) In one sense, this social filter is simply a technological version of the oldest tool in politics: word of mouth."
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