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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. Public Administration Review,72 (4), 526-535. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02551.x.

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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. Why “meeting people where they are” matters: 1) We are generally a passive voting audience, if you meet us where we are, in theory we are more likely to participate – right? Bush administration in 2002. Bush in 2004. Why or why not? Sound off below.