<nettime> texting to incite violence in Nigeria

[nativebuddha <nativebuddha@gmail.com>]

here's the dark ide of texting:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8482666.stm


would like to see where else and when texting has been used to provoke
political violence. might we see more "hostile" uses of social media? text
wars, maybe?

-robert


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