{"id":599,"date":"2010-11-25T09:54:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T13:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=599"},"modified":"2011-02-17T21:06:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T01:06:57","slug":"crowdsourcing-the-deficit-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2010\/11\/25\/crowdsourcing-the-deficit-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"crowdsourcing the deficit problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/14\/weekinreview\/14leonhardt.html\" target=\"_blank\">asked their readers<\/a> how to balance the federal budget. Click the image below to see how the 7000 replies via Twitter panned out [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/21\/weekinreview\/21leonhardt.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">article <\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/13\/behind-the-timess-deficit-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">methodology<\/a>].<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2010\/11\/21\/weekinreview\/21leonhardt-graphic.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-600\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2010\/11\/nytdef.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2010\/11\/nytdef.jpg 528w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2010\/11\/nytdef-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2010\/11\/nytdef-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIf Web 2.0 tools are all about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Democratization\" target=\"_blank\">democratization<\/a>&#8220;, how might democracies utilize the crowd using Web 2.0 tools? We&#8217;ve spoken about how user-generated content makes us all &#8220;prosumers&#8221; of the web, that is, we are both producers and consumers of content. Isn&#8217;t democracy inherently a prosumer form of politics where we are (hypothetically) both the producers and consumers of political decisions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times asked their readers how to balance the federal budget. Click the image below to see how the 7000 replies via Twitter panned out [article | methodology]. If Web 2.0 tools are all about &#8220;democratization&#8220;, how might democracies utilize the crowd using Web 2.0 tools? We&#8217;ve spoken about how user-generated content makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[513,425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data","category-links"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}