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Grassroots, Netroots, and the End and Beginning of Politics

Micah:
Democracy is changing – new tools, new strategies, new ways of thinking
The cost of finding like-minded souls and banding together around a common cause is almost zero
Network means something very different from the days of CBS, NBC, ABC
People want to be heard
Members expect more of a say
Readers want to talk back to journalists/editors
Citizens demanding more transparency and responsiveness from their governments

People are attracted to participation – more than writing checks to support a cause – also realizing they can be co-creators.

So the session question – how can we adapt to this?

Net2Con: Making the Most of Disruption

....a live, uncut and subjective take on the session

participants: Howard Rheingold and Paul Saffo

immoderator: Lucy Bernholz

Erika Block's Intro

Hello Net2 Folks -
I'm looking forward to the conference - and to Wine Camp
beforehand. I'll be participating as a volunteer blogger.

I'm a director, producer and playwright who's worked in the U.S., Great Britain
and South Africa. My creative practice focuses on visual and physical
performance, community-building, interactivity and cultural exchange.

For the past 3 years my company, Walk &
Squawk Performance Project
, has been working on the href="http://walksquawk.blogs.com/about_the_walking_project/">Walking
Project
, an exploration of

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