Post by mistervoid69laugh on Oct 5, 2011 0:50:26 GMT -5
citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.95.3793&rep=rep1&type=pdf
^oppositional and activist new media, Leah Lievrouw
r-u-ins.org/resource/pdfs/YouAreNotAGadget-A_Manifesto.pdf
^you are not a gadget, Jaron Lanier
rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Rushkoff_ProgramOrBeProgrammed_ch10.pdf
^Program or be Programmed, Douglas Rushkoff
freenetproject.org/
^"Many people today live under democratic governments, and those who don't, probably want to. Democracy is an answer to the question of how to create leaders, while preventing them from abusing that power. It achieves this by giving the population the power to regulate their government through voting, yet the ability to vote does not necessarily mean that you live in a democratic country. For a population to regulate their government effectively it must know what their government is doing, they must be well informed. It is a feedback loop, but this loop can be broken if the government has the power to control the information the population has access to. "
I propose a subgroup to explain societal structure and why/how this kind of class system was developed in America, and what continues it. From Colonialism to e-Commerce + Interface Design!
I apprehend that many people are not joining us because they don't know why they should, they don't have a clue where government money goes, they don't understand the system which screws them. If we make sure our protestors are educated on both sides of the coin, our movement will be all the more successful, and will probably begin to pick up the more institutionally educated and those who would wait for certain signs of power before joining.
^oppositional and activist new media, Leah Lievrouw
r-u-ins.org/resource/pdfs/YouAreNotAGadget-A_Manifesto.pdf
^you are not a gadget, Jaron Lanier
rekveld.home.xs4all.nl/tech/Rushkoff_ProgramOrBeProgrammed_ch10.pdf
^Program or be Programmed, Douglas Rushkoff
freenetproject.org/
^"Many people today live under democratic governments, and those who don't, probably want to. Democracy is an answer to the question of how to create leaders, while preventing them from abusing that power. It achieves this by giving the population the power to regulate their government through voting, yet the ability to vote does not necessarily mean that you live in a democratic country. For a population to regulate their government effectively it must know what their government is doing, they must be well informed. It is a feedback loop, but this loop can be broken if the government has the power to control the information the population has access to. "
I propose a subgroup to explain societal structure and why/how this kind of class system was developed in America, and what continues it. From Colonialism to e-Commerce + Interface Design!
I apprehend that many people are not joining us because they don't know why they should, they don't have a clue where government money goes, they don't understand the system which screws them. If we make sure our protestors are educated on both sides of the coin, our movement will be all the more successful, and will probably begin to pick up the more institutionally educated and those who would wait for certain signs of power before joining.