Just wanted to add a perspective to the discussion here about social networks being new platforms for social activism:

From Participation to Power: The Potential Pitfalls of Web 2.0
http://www.shareable.net/blog/from-participation-to-power-the-potential-pitfalls-of-web-20

The perspective of Harald Katzmair, Ph.d of FAS.research can summed up simply: participation is not power.  Unless structure appropriately, online conversations will not move from shared connections, to shared understanding, to shared action.  Unless structured appropriately, it will disempower participants.

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  1. Re: Fwd: New answer to "Are social networks the new platforms
     for social activism?" (Michel Bauwens)
  2. Fwd: Michael Hamlin commented on your answer "There is indeed
     a left-libertarian tradition which aims to combine individual
     freedom with a conc..." (Michel Bauwens)
  3. Fwd: <Coalition> German and EU Green New Deal Proposal
     (Michel Bauwens)


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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:47:47 +0700
From: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: New answer to "Are social networks the new
       platforms for social activism?"
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I just invited you,

anybody else who needs an invitation let me know,

if't s a great place to learn from knowledgeable people, and also to
re-share the material we have assembled at the p2p foundation,

Michel

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Roberto Verzola <rverzola@gn.apc.org>wrote:

> I tried to create an account, but it told me it is by invitation only...
>
> Roberto
>
> Michel Bauwens wrote:
> > thanks Olivier, are you on quora?
> >
> > I didn't know about it but am hooked from 'go' ..
> >
> > Michel
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:19 PM, olivier auber
> > <olivierauber2@gmail.com <mailto:olivierauber2@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     In fact the so called "social networks" are "social silos".
> >
> >     Using the marketing name is just confusing the map and the
> >     territory. And almost everybody does it!
> >
> >     We should fight on the semantic battlefield by using a term like
> >     "social silo" just like Stallmann says "privative software".
> >     But in this case, that is NOT to say that "social silos" are BAD,
> >     just that they are silos and have their own legitimacy. Other
> >     rules may exist....
> >
> >     Here is an english translation of a very short french paper about
> >     this confusion and its consequences.
> >
> >     http://is.gd/URiWqO
> >
> >     Olivier
> >
> >
> >
> >     2011/1/18 Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004@gmail.com
> >     <mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com>>
> >
> >         well said Sam!
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> >               New answer to "Are social networks the new platforms for
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> >         *Sam Rose*:
> >         I don't think social networks are the "new" platforms for
> >         social activism. Social networks definitely are platforms for
> >         social activism, though.
> >
> >         Many people do not realize that activity among participant
> >         activists online usually happens across a diverse range of
> >         "Technologies of Cooperation", not limited to social networks,
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:11:59 +0700
From: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004@gmail.com>
Subject: [P2P-F] Fwd: Michael Hamlin commented on your answer "There
       is indeed a left-libertarian tradition which aims to combine
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Kevin is mentioned here:

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conc..."
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[image: Quora]Michael Hamlin commented on your answer "There is indeed a
left-libertarian tradition which aims to combine individual freedom with a
conc..."
Michael Hamlin commented on your answer "There is indeed a left-libertarian
tradition which aims to combine individual freedom with a conc...":

""Organization Theory" has been sitting on my desk for many months, but it
keeps being preempted in my reading queue. Carson's efforts to synthesize
various schools sometimes feels a bit forced, but I enjoy them.

Sometimes I feel that the C4SS and Carson's "neo-mutalist" system is a good,
well, counterbalance to the Rothbardian advance (not that I am
anti-Rothbardian). I'm sympathetic and happy for the growth of all these
libertarian-style systems."

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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:18:45 +0700
From: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004@gmail.com>
Subject: [P2P-F] Fwd: <Coalition> German and EU Green New Deal
       Proposal
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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: <Coalition> German and EU Green New Deal Proposal
To: coalition@googlegroups.com


... as the next "Green" capitalist bubble ?

Thank you for sharing that Pdf

http://www.boell.org/downloads/Green-New-Deal.pdf

I somehow tried to participate in the "Green New Deal" debate, including
sharing understanding of the need for exponential monetary mass growth in a
capitalist, central bank debt with interest based currency.

I see no mention in that pdf of tackling the problem of monetary
architectures, and "interest" on credit.

My own feeling , if it was understood, is that such view "disturbed" some
greens who could influence the agenda.

I was asking how such green new deal would be used... and if it would be
used to get out of the current capitalist approach.

>From my point of view, maintaining the current system is not green, even if
one puts a layer of green paint on it, creating new markets as to increase
the monetary mass, and maintain the current non-green system.



On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:21 AM, George Mokray <gmoke@world.std.com> wrote:

> 40 page paper from Germany - pdf alert
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> http://www.sven-giegold.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Green-New-Deal_en.pdf
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