Globalism and social media
I came across this essay by Eric Ehrmann on the Huffington Post, which takes a view about how social media fits with globalism. He calls social media the “enemy within”, seeking to flatten the entrepreneurial focus of the emerging digital economy into a playground of blogs, tribes and conversations that reduce business from being the driver of market and oligopoly capitalism into an experience of stories, feelings and the wisdom of online crowds.”
It’s a somewhat jaundiced view of social media as a chaotic and undisciplined adolescent, which is having trouble exhibiting adult behaviours associated with mainstream business values. “Social media is virtual and detached,” Ehrmann says. “From the viewpoint of behavioral psychology it behaves as an adaptive angry child, rather than as a stable, nurtured child because it is virtual and nobody nurtured it.”
A polemical view, and worth a look.
