Cyborgology editors Nathan Jurgenson (@nathanjurgenson) and PJ Rey (@pjrey) live-tweeted Personal Democracy Media’s From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street and Beyond: A Flash Conference. Below is an archive of the conference backchannel (also here) as well as the video from the event.
Conference Description
Across America and the world, millions of people are entering the public arena and, using social and collaborative media, forming powerful new networks for change. The result is a rising wave of challenges to the political order that are expanding the boundaries of political discourse and forcing new issues into the conversation. At this event, we’ll hear from leading organizers and observers of these new movements, and explore questions like:
- Are these movements leaderless, or leaderfull? And either way, how do they make decisions?
- Are these movements working within the system or trying to create a new one?
- Getting co-opted: A danger or a sign that you’re winning?
- Is a group still its own worst enemy?
- New media and over-communication: how do these movements manage the cacophony they help create?
- Is networked democracy to top-down politics what citizen media is to broadcast media?
Join us to explore these questions with:
- Ori Brafman, co-author, The Starfish and the Spider
- Beka Economopolous, organizer, Occupy Wall Street
- Marianne Manilov, co-founder, The Engage Network
- Mark Meckler, co-founder, Tea Party Patriots
- Jessica Shearer, faith and labor organizer, Occupy Wall Street
- Clay Shirky, NYU, author, Here Comes Everybody
- Zeynep Tufekci, University of North Carolina
moderated by Micah L. Sifry and Andrew Rasiej, Personal Democracy Media
Comments 2
Replqwtil — December 13, 2011
Brilliant! Thanks for the Storify!! Probably never would have managed to read all this without it. Very interesting conversation. Agree that real criticisms of networked "flat" movements were left till far too late, but glad problem of crypto-hierarchies was at least raised.
Thought it was interesting, the debate near the beginning about What and How, which is more important. Think it strikes an interesting false split between the two. It seems to me that What is produced by a movement will inevitably be the product of How they go about doing it... I reality the two often collapse into each other.
Enjoyed the discussion of OWS as 'networks of care' as well. Relates well to my view of the movement as a form of counter-hegemonic national building, a way of developing local solutions to national problems, and spreading them. Obviously relates to OSS comparison as well.
Sounds like it was a really interesting conference!! Thanks for sharing.
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