Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: Clay Shirky on Collective Action - The Diigo Meta page

• 14 Sep 08
  

  Miguel guhlin
  • The transaction costs of getting people together to accomplish anything has been historically high. Now we have tools that lower those transaction costs. There's an explosion of what people are doing with it.
  • Media is no longer just a source of information; it's a site of action. It's not just telling you what's going on. It holds out the possibility of people coordinating. Media leads to action, action leads to media.
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  • • Imagine if the only way Jimmy Wales could get a free encyclopedia was to protest Brittanica until they freed their encyclopedia? No way. Take that energy and online tools, and put it into the worlds of collective action. How do we take that energy seen for production and sharing, and bring it into the real world? If we don't address that, then we've only participated in a partial revolution.

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