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Week 7: While blogs are good advocacy tools, they may be also abused to further controversial causes
Tuesday, May 6, 2008Blogs are serving not just journalistic purposes, but also advocacy purposes. This is what I like about blogs, they provide an inexpensive yet expansive platform to publicly voice our opinions and garner support from the community, or engage in civic discourse with people who disagree with our stands. It is also an advertising platform to announce any fundraising events, protests and demonstration...
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