Howard Rheingold on Smart Mobs for Democracy
Two things are crucial: to develop a literacy of consuming participatory media and more importantly, a literacy of production. Together, if successfull, they could trigger an inflection point in our civilization.
URL = http://vlog.rheingold.com/index.php/site/video/smart-mobs-collective-action-media-and-democracy-part-1/ ; Part Two
Description
"In Fall, 2007, James Fishkin’s Center for Deliberative Democracy and Jim Lehrer’s Newshour program brought together 300 Americans to talk about democracy. By The People, was broadcast on PBS in January, 2008. I was invited to address this assembly. I talked about Smart Mobs in relation to the public sphere—the citizen discourse that undergirds democracy. The following video, first of two parts, courtesy MacNeil/Lehrer Productions."