Cheap online expression fragments rather than empowers radical politics

Evidence

While the internet has radically lowered the costs of political expression, it has also pulverized the terrain of radical politics, blurring the borders between party and society and spawning a chaos of vaguely mandated online actors. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 24

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is the claimed causal mechanism between low-cost expression and organizational fragmentation adequately demonstrated, or asserted?
• XREF: connects to: Radical media technology and democratic structure mutually require each other — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 104; A philosophical movement can develop its ideas through the blog medium rather than print — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2055