1 I find myself thinking more and more that twitter is a moralizing space failing or even masquerading as a deliberative space.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
2 By "moralizing" I mean it is useful for shoring up the "we" of mores, the *we* that repudiates *theys* for its legibility and force.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
3 For threatened, marginalized communities centering and bolstering a moral we can foster truly emancipatory and revelatory political power.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
4 But deliberative work seems to me to operate differently than morals, its politics are pragmatic in ways that compromise moral lines.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
5 Or it evokes instead the contingent universalization of ethical imaginaries that resist or would transcend our moral horizons.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
6 Twitter's moralism invests conversations with zany momenta, too much like the "Telephone" game from childhood.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
7 You try to make a point within twitter's character constraints, often in an improvisatory way in a real time exchange.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
8 Some strangers affirm what you say while other strangers take umbrage -- in neither case do the reactions seem exactly right.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
9 You try course corrections, encouraging and encouraged by those who seem to agree, hoping to nudge them closer to your point.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
10 You may try to defend yourself against unwarranted attacks but efforts to qualify claims or redirect focus smell like blood in the water.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
11 All this is all the more difficult if you feel a bit defensive or even horrified by the way you feel you may be being misconstrued.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
12 "Followers" feel like moral support networks you don't want to alienate, but consist mostly of strangers affiliating with a caricature.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
13 While some tweets seem rather like aphorisms, provocations that work as points of departure rather than settlements,
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
14 …most tweets seem instead like subcultural signals of identification and dis-identification that work best when they are least ambiguous.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
15 I've been quite invested micro-blogging practices for a few years now, and whatever their palpable satisfactions and real rewards…
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
16 I do wonder if they are capable of facilitating conversation aimed at understanding or organizing aimed at diverse coalition-building.
— Dale Carrico (@dalecarrico) July 2, 2016
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