Networked Public Sphere
Howard Rheingold says –
My own belief is that the strong potential for such improvement has been demonstrated (for example, the use of MySpace by high school students to organize street demonstrations, and the many instances of political smart mobbing noted in this blog, but that the success of a mediated public sphere depends upon whether a sufficient number of people an activate this potential to achieve real ends.
Not so much the number of people, but the focus of the group. Instead of trying to impact large scale players (democratic nation states) with equally large scale supposid organic groups the right idea is to focus on common social clusters (college kids, businessmen) and leverage organic interest (school loans or low taxes) to turn them into disruptive innovators to “grow change”. Simply put – scale it down and ignore the legacy player. As Sun Tzu once wrote – don’t let the enemy define the battleground.
-Shlok
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