Social Media, Slacktivism, And Kony 2012

and (both staffers here at Forbes) have a great conversation about social media and the Kony documentary that went viral recently: I like Alex’s distinction between “slacktivism” and traditional advertising. The Kony documentary is basically a huge awareness campaign. As many have pointed out, awareness and social media alone will do very little to stop […]

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Erik Kain

Erik writes about video games at Forbes and politics at Mother Jones. He's the editor of The League though he hasn't written much here lately. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter.