<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:54 PM<br>Subject: 2 min video - (Astro)Turf Wars: How Corporate America is Faking a Grassroots Revolution<br>To: <a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a><br><br>
<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8k66kB4Zn8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8k66kB4Zn8</a><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing</a></div>
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<b>Astroturfing</b>�is a form of�<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocacy" title="Advocacy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">advocacy</a>�often in support of a�<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics" title="Politics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">political</a>�or corporate agenda designed to give the appearance of a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grassroots" title="Grassroots" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">grassroots</a>" movement. The goal of such campaigns is to disguise the efforts of a political�<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And/or" title="And/or" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">and/or</a>�<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_personality" title="Legal personality" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">commercial entity</a>�as an independent public reaction to some political entity�a politician, political group, product, service or event. The term is a derivation of�<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AstroTurf" title="AstroTurf" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">AstroTurf</a>, a brand of synthetic carpeting designed to look like natural grass.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Astroturfers attempt to orchestrate the actions of apparently diverse and geographically distributed individuals, by both overt ("outreach", "awareness", etc.) and covert (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation" title="Disinformation" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173);" target="_blank">disinformation</a>) means.�</p>
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