| jon lebkowsky on 6 Feb 2001 20:34:45 -0000 |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Reform Democracy for the Internet Age |
> * we need some theory on participation/democracy on the Net and we > need some significant re-analysis of current theories of > participation/democracy in the light of the Net as participation > prosthetic. I've been working on this problem for an upcoming book, and it's nontrivial. I won't get into it too much here, but there are issues of anonymity vs accountability to be resolved, and there is a significant training aspect to the problem of access. Above all there is the question of meaningful interaction vs noise, which parallels the issue of democracy vs mobocracy. This is probably a question of distributed leadership models which must evolve for best-case democracy to take root in cyberspace. jl _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold