What images does the word �power� bring to your mind? Weapons? Bulging muscles? A mean-looking capitalist smoking cigar? Whatever your mind�s eye brings up, it is most likely not a fragile figure hunched over a keyboard. But maybe it should.
Words have power, today more than ever. Riots and rebellions can be arranged by text-messages, a single word made hashtag can create a mass movement, 140
Thursday, 24 September 2015
The power of words � and its limit
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