Bill Mitchell — Exploring The Effectiveness Of Social Media – Business Office 3

This is the tertiary improver inwards the ‘Exploring the effectiveness of social media’ series, which is reporting electrical flow enquiry I am doing alongside Dr Louisa Connors, which seeks to empathize how best to role social media to advance an awareness in addition to agreement of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). We volition move discussing roughly of this operate at the The Second International Conference of Modern Monetary Theory (New York, September 28-30), that is, afterwards this week. There is no uncertainty that social media (among other things) has played a major component subdivision inwards edifice a non-academic audience for Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). But it is non however clear to me that social media users who attempt to advocate for MMT convey fully understood the media they are using. I run into counterproductive exercises regularly on Twitter, for example. There is a clear literature on effective role of social media in addition to at that spot is also a long literature on how to frame arguments to move persuasive. Calling somebody on Twitter who disagrees alongside you lot a ‘fxxkwit’ or telling them they haven’t read the literature is in all likelihood non the best fashion to exploit what is a ability tool for advancing our cause. This weblog postal service extends the news near the strategic role of social media....

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Exploring the effectiveness of social media – Part 3
Bill Mitchell | Professor inwards Economics in addition to Director of the Centre of Full Employment in addition to Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia