{"id":775,"date":"2009-08-13T11:19:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T15:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/?p=775"},"modified":"2009-08-13T11:52:24","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T15:52:24","slug":"radio-berkman-supreme-is-twitter-a-revolution-a-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2009\/08\/13\/radio-berkman-supreme-is-twitter-a-revolution-a-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Berkman Supreme: Is Twitter A Revolution? A Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/podcasts\/mediaberkman\/radioberkman\/_files\/RadioBerkmanSupreme.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Berkman Center for Internet Society was blessed with the presence of dozens of interns this summer &#8211; some of the best, the brightest, and most energetic folks in the field of cyber study. Four of them came together earlier this summer for a semi-Oxford style debate on a topic of importance. The question: Is Twitter a Revolutionary Force for Social Communication?<\/p>\n<p>We excerpted from this debate for this week&#8217;s Radio Berkman (listen <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/2009\/08\/13\/radio-berkman-128-tweeting-a-dead-horse\/\">here<\/a>), but the full debate is chock full of some great perspectives on whether Twitter is a force for good, evil, or just not such a big deal. Give it a listen!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/berkmancenter\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3008\/3818045932_a7483f3fef.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Berkterns debating a topic of importance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Above from left to right: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/petey05\">Chris Peterson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citmedialaw.org\/blog\/andrew-moshirnia\">Andrew Moshirnia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rebekahredux\">Rebekah Heacock<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SCJacobs\">Sawyer Jacobs<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/catherine_white\">Catherine White<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/podcasts\/mediaberkman\/radioberkman\/2009-08-13_twitterdebate.mp3\">or download<\/a><br \/>\n&#8230;also in <a href=\"http:\/\/wilkins.law.harvard.edu\/podcasts\/mediaberkman\/radioberkman\/2009-08-13_twitterdebate.ogg\">Ogg<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Berkman Center for Internet Society was blessed with the presence of dozens of interns this summer &#8211; some of the best, the brightest, and most energetic folks in the field of cyber study. Four of them came together earlier this summer for a semi-Oxford style debate on a topic of importance. The question: Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[956,3742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-radioberkman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mediaberkman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}