Social media and short termism --- Agreed about the negative effect of social media on political communication and policy development. As Andrej mentioned in an HT last week, short election cycles already have an adverse effect on policies designed to address long-term issues, and the short attention span encouraged by social media aggravates this bittiness and lack of joined up, substantive action even more, alas.

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu