Monday, April 2, 2012

BBC - Newsnight: Paul Mason: Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere

BBC - Newsnight: Paul Mason: Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere: "Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere
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At the heart of it all are young people, obviously; students; westernised; secularised. They use social media - as the mainstream media has now woken up to - but this obsession with reporting "they use twitter" is missing the point of what they use it for. 
In so far as there are common threads to be found in these different situation, here's 20 things I have spotted:
1. At the heart if it all is a new sociological type: the graduate with no future
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