A review by tbrnichols
Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix by Katherine Cross

informative slow-paced

2.5

I was hoping to get more insight into exceptions of the (almost) in the title and felt it came a bit short on that. It seems to me that posting really can make a difference in the world of policy entrepreneurship but that posting is not the shit post or the call out post or the catharsis post, but the earnest take, something that is more the domain of blogging than microblogging but feels publicizable through it. But the book was a good look at why those three listed varieties of post and the dunk post feel like politics, but very rarely have meaningful effects and why they are easier to transmit and to follow via open platforms than the organizing, the community meeting schedule, or the site plan commenting campaign is. But I did enjoy it less than I expected to, and it just didn't have that spark in inspiration I was looking for, despite making it's rather conservative argument quite well. Also I imagine the more revolutionary aspirations of the author make her more dismissive of the possibility of posting (or really takesing) into the minds of elected officials and other policy makers, or dismissive of that as constituent of politics.