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Column: "Hashtag activism offers chance to take a stand" at The Tennessean

An excerpt:
The opportunity we have now as a society and as students and shapers of our own society is twofold: to participate more meaningfully in the causes that move us to share compelling social statuses, and, if we are intending to influence behavior, to work to more effectively mobilize the communities that spring up around these ad hoc micro-causes.
Read the rest at the link: http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2014/06/07/hashtag-activism-offers-chance-take-stand/10104895/
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