democracy

The Social Filter

by Allison Fine on 12 Jun 2008

I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel last week with an incredibly smart and interesting group: Jay Rosen, a leading media critic; Baratunde Thurston, The Onion’s web editor; and Andrew Rasiej, the founder of Personal Democracy Forum. Our panel, The Forum on Participation and Politics Online, was organized by Susan Crawford, the founder of One Web Day, in honor of Internet Week New York. Read more »

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Millennials' Plea: Please, Stop Talking About Me

by Julia Rocchi on 2 Jun 2008 9

Today’s guest blogger is Maya Enista, CEO of Mobilize.org.

I’ve come up with one definition for my generation, the infamous Millennials: we don’t like being defined. We especially don’t like being defined by people who don’t have Facebook accounts, don’t know that RSS feeds are a legitimate way to get your news, have never used Twitter, don’t understand that we can text and listen and jokingly tell us that we must be “itching to go to the bar” after a well-delivered power point presentation at a conference at which I’m the youngest one, by years … so, please stop talking about me. Read more »

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