well said Sam! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quora <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:48 PM Subject: New answer to "Are social networks the new platforms for social activism?" To: [email protected] [image: Quora]New answer to "Are social networks the new platforms for social activism?" *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, but also including self and service hosted blogs, wiki sites, social bookmarking services, email discussion groups like google groups, yahoogroups and mailman email lists, open source software like statusnet, and emerging services like quora. Social networks are only a part of the total picture. *To see the question page with all answers, visit: http://www.quora.com/l/Rd5CXzYp* Thanks, The Quora Team We sent you this email because you are following this question. To stop following it, click this link: http://www.quora.com/l/quP9kGPz/_STOP_FOLLOWING To control which emails we send you, visit: http://www.quora.com/l/P3aGJZiY This email was sent by Quora, a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. To disable all email from Quora, visit the following link: http://www.quora.com/l/K3HE3bvA -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI