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Wednesday Web Watch for October 15, 2014

Social media prompts instability according to a recent article by Curtis Hougland published in Knowledge@Wharton.  Online mass distribution of material occurs to inspire and encourage like-minded individuals to get up and join the cause.  “Follow” and “Like” us is the connectivity message that groups like ISIS and less controversial bodies are sending out.   Political unrest has intensified as a result of social media and what is “trending” is Balkanization: “[n]ations will follow the path of social media in splintering by sectarian, religious and ethnic interests.”  Is there a solution to the alleged “de-evolution of nationhood”?  According to Hougland, “[i]n the disease, lies the cure” which he discloses in the article.