<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><div><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">"Enthusiasts
for social media would no doubt have us believe that King’s task in
Birmingham would have been made infinitely easier had he been able to
communicate with his followers through Facebook, and contented himself
with tweets from a Birmingham jail. But networks are messy: think of the
ceaseless pattern of correction and revision, amendment and debate,
that characterizes Wikipedia. If Martin Luther King, Jr., had tried to
do a wiki-boycott in Montgomery, he would have been steamrollered by the
white power structure. And of what use would a digital communication
tool be in a town where ninety-eight per cent of the black community
could be reached every Sunday morning at church? The things that King
needed in Birmingham—discipline and strategy—were things that online
social media cannot provide."<span><br><br>Read more <a style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153);" href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell?printable=true¤tPage=all#ixzz11lfMtQ6s">http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/04/101004fa_fact_gladwell?printable=true¤tPage=all#ixzz11lfMtQ6s</a></span></div></div> </div><br><div><div style="text-align: left;">M.</div></div></body></html>