[P2P-F] Fwd: 2 min video - (Astro)Turf Wars: How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution

Mon May 30 14:34:28 CEST 2011

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From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:54 PM
Subject: 2 min video - (Astro)Turf Wars: How Corporate America is Faking a
Grassroots Revolution
To: econowmix at googlegroups.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8k66kB4Zn8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing

*Astroturfing* is a form of advocacy
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy> often
in support of a political <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics> or
corporate agenda designed to give the appearance of a
"grassroots<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots>"
movement. The goal of such campaigns is to disguise the efforts of a
political and/or <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And/or> commercial
entity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_personality> as
an independent public reaction to some political entity—a politician,
political group, product, service or event. The term is a derivation of
AstroTurf <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstroTurf>, a brand of synthetic
carpeting designed to look like natural grass.

Astroturfers attempt to orchestrate the actions of apparently diverse and
geographically distributed individuals, by both overt ("outreach",
"awareness", etc.) and covert
(disinformation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation>)
means.

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