{"id":23287,"date":"2011-08-29T10:26:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T17:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=23287"},"modified":"2011-08-29T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T17:26:28","slug":"new-york-times-in-unsettled-times-media-can-be-a-call-to-action-or-a-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/08\/29\/new-york-times-in-unsettled-times-media-can-be-a-call-to-action-or-a-distraction\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: In Unsettled Times, Media Can Be a Call to Action, or a Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE mass media, including interactive social-networking tools, make you passive, can sap your initiative, leave you content to watch the spectacle of life from your couch or smartphone. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently even during a revolution.<\/p>\n<p>That is the provocative thesis of a new paper by Navid Hassanpour, a political science graduate student at Yale, titled \u201cMedia Disruption Exacerbates Revolutionary Unrest.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Using complex calculations and vectors representing decision-making by potential protesters, Mr. Hassanpour, who already has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford, studied the recent uprising in Egypt. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/29\/business\/media\/in-times-of-unrest-social-networks-can-be-a-distraction.html?_r=1&#038;ref=world\">Read the full article here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE mass media, including interactive social-networking tools, make you passive, can sap your initiative, leave you content to watch the spectacle of life from your couch or smartphone. Apparently even during a revolution. That is the provocative thesis of a new paper by Navid Hassanpour, a political science graduate student at Yale, titled \u201cMedia Disruption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}