Intellectuals and social networks: new media, old traditions
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Intellectuals and New Technologies
Critical intellectuals were traditionally those who utilized their skills of speaking and writing to denounce injustices and abuses of power, and to fight for truth, justice, progress, and other positive values. In the words of Jean-Paul Sartre (1974: 285), "the duty of the intellectual is to denounce injustice wherever it occurs." The modern critical intellectual's field of action was what Hab...
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عنوان ژورنال: Matrizes
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1982-8160,1982-2073
DOI: 10.11606/issn.1982-8160.v6i1-2p145-160