kellyramsey + collective-action 5
Reddit Has Gone Mad with Power (Adrian Chen @ Gawker)
january 2012 by kellyramsey
" While great for short bursts of fundraising or getting out a timely message, purely digital mobs like Reddit or the hacktivist collective Anonymous are not well-suited for thoughtful, sustained participation in the political process. Fuck the "Wisdom of the crowd." The thinking of the internet hive mind is shallow and frantic, scrambling from one outrage to the next. "
collective-action
failure
Anonymous
from twitter
january 2012 by kellyramsey
After dark, mobs form, smash windows, loot (Matthai Kuruvila, Kevin Fagan, Carolyn Jones, Jaxon Van Derbeken, San Francisco Chronicle)
july 2010 by kellyramsey
Collective action sociology would term this a "panic". It also evokes the "prisoner's dilemma".
collective-action
from twitter
july 2010 by kellyramsey
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