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Gene Purcell in for Joy Cardin
from Friday, March 9, 2012 at 7:00 AM
Social media has been lit up with a protest video against a leader in Uganda...Rush Limbaugh is getting heat on Facebook and Twitter...and protests from the Arab Spring to the Madison Capitol have had online elements. After seven, Gene Purcell and his guest look at the role of social media in political protest. Guest: Paul Levinson, Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University. A revised edition of his book "New, New Media" is due out this summer. His blog is www.paullevinson.blogspot.com

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