SMS activism: don’t call us, we’ll call you [The Feature]
The increasing ubiquity and popularity of mass SMS-enabled but temporary political affiliation may actually end up bringing its demise.
These are not true bottom-up, spontaneous, grass-roots expressions of networked solidarity, nor even representations of groups willing to follow up on their stated convictions; they are simply instances of large numbers of people momentarily willing to take their orders from above.
(via MobileActive)
