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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

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This concept while widely dismissed by today’s scholars of public administration (Campbell and Peters, 1998; Levy, 2009) as if a true unadulterated distinction could honestly, actually, occur is commonly a constant and growing public debate particularly in developing countries. Campbell, C., & Peters, B. Governance, 1 (1), 79-99.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2011; Aday, et al., Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

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First enhanced State of the Union live stream : President Obama, 2011. ” Take a look at previous #SOTU (2009 – present) observations from Pew Center for Research. Bush administration in 2002. First high definition television broadcast of the address also took place under George W. Bush in 2004. Why or why not?