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The articles here ask whether the phenomenon of disintegrating social connections Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam described as \u201cbowling alone\u201d still prevails in the digital age, or whether social media activism \u2014 call it \u201cbowling online\u201d \u2014 harbours the power to strengthen democracy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><span class=\"image-caption\">Photo: Shutterstock\u00a0 by Tashatuvango<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a growth industry in trying to measure social media&#8217;s impact on our lives \u2014 and\u00a0politics. Many argue that online political activism is superficial engagement, lacking the\u00a0personal ties of community that once drove social change. Social media&#8217;s evangelists demur, declaring that a new code of politics is being written online, altering the political commons but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":248297,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9382,9385],"tags":[],"irpp-category":[],"series-content":[],"irpp-tag":[7136],"class_list":["post-263307","series","type-series","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dossiers","category-medias-et-culture","irpp-tag-medias-et-culture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Clicktivism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The articles here ask whether the phenomenon of disintegrating social connections described as \u201cbowling alone\u201d still prevails in the digital age.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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