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MISTICA: Technology use by anti war protesters

From: Yacine Khelladi ([email protected])
Date: Sun Feb 23 2003 - 14:04:33 AST

How Protesters Mobilized So Many and So Nimbly
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/23/weekinreview/23JLEE.html

extractos:

".. But the Internet has become more than a mere organizing tool; it has
changed protests in a more fundamental way, by allowing mobilization to
emerge from free-wheeling amorphous groups, rather than top-down
hierarchical ones.
... The protests had no single identified leader and no central
headquarters. Social theorists have a name for these types of
decentralized networks: heterarchies. In contrast to hierarchies, with
top-down structures, heterarchies are made up of previously isolated
groups that can connect to one another and coordinate.
... .... new kinds of institutions emerge," said Howard
Rheingold, the author of "Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution," which
documents self-organizing and leaderless movements. "We are seing the
combination of network communications and social networks.""

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