"Social Media Is a Conversation, Not a Press Release"

So, this article is not directly related to race or to education.  It's just a random article that I happened upon... a response to the way that some journalists (Bill & Emma Keller) critiqued a cancer patient's social-media presence.  Like I said, nothing that's directly related to race or to education.

However, I thought that the article was well-written and there was one particular quote that resonated with me.  I can't put it into words, but I feel like there's something here about the power of empowering youth and teachers and other allies to speak up... (emphasis mine)


If anything, social media has helped move us to a world in which people are no longer passive, silent subjects of journalists (or academics or other gatekeepers of public discourse). We can no longer speak of people at them, without them talking back of their own experience, and articulating their own narrative in their own terms. And how to deal with that reality, not whether cancer patients should tweet that much, is the real ethical question before us.

I don't know... I'm not finding the words... But anyways, it was an interesting read... :)
"Social Media Is a Conversation, Not a Press Release" by Zeynep Tufekci