Whats the big deal about what Boyd and Gladwell said, and why do we have to base papers off of their ideas? Everyone has a different view on what social networking sites can be used for and how to fix them. Politics technically should be allowed in social media. According to the constitution these are our basic rights. Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, so who is to say that we cannot utilize our facebook page and our tweets for politics. However, if people are looking for a way to increase political action via politics, they still have a lot of research to do on the subject.
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melissaaajo 
you’re definitely right about social media usage as a basic individual freedom, but i think the authors we read are looking at more in-depth, nuanced questions dealing with social media and politics, not simply whether or not it should be allowed. i get the sense that they’re coming from the angle of realizing that the world is in a place where it’s trying to figure out how to use this powerful new tool and so they’re trying to theorize both what the meaning of current practices is as well as conjecturing what types of actions and effects different, future forms of use may lead us to.