And curiously, mobile phones were used to promote concetrations against the govermentīs manipulation of the information.
Posted by: karramarro at March 17, 2004 10:45 AMIndeed. The mediatic, decentralised bottom-up response by the Spanish people to the attempts at mass-media manipulation has been a positive reaction to a terrible tragedy.
This rather laconic post was a way of highlighting the sadness of how the tools of our everyday living can be turned into deadly instruments.
But tools they remain nevertheless,capable of kick-starting both positive and negative outcomes, as you rightly point out.