Online Reporting, Discussion, Activism and Emerging Democracies

As online reports, discussions, activism and emerging democratic weblogs and other social software become more popular, Jim Moore and Joi Ito talk about how people move, interact, and make fundamental decisions I'm watching it. Article first published in 2003 - Jim Moore's "The Beautiful Heart of the Second Superpower" [1] and Ito's Emerging Democracy [2] - are the Internet technicians fundamentally technically Even tactical promising, sometimes ambiguous photos, will change the real world politics.

Henry Jenkins: All democratic concepts assume citizens who are involved with information. In other words, discussion on democracy needs to include discussion on media. As the United States and the emergence of information technology - printing machines, brochures and the rise of the party - appeared, digital media caused a new way of thinking and discussion on democracy. It seems important to start our meeting by thinking about the meaning of democracy and the view of it in history.

Since the advent of the theory of liberal democracy as the power of the intellectuals of Europe, the relationship between democracy and media has been the subject of continuous discussion. In the 17th century, John Milton's Aeropagitica made a liberal discussion on the right to free debate. Such discussion may lead to erroneous views, rejection of false observations and discovery of the truth. The freedom of journalism in the "Bill of Rights" of the "Constitution of the United States" gained little attention when the first amendment was passed, but such assurance is always controversial. To some extent, Thomas Jefferson and other anti-Federalists were enthusiastic defenders of press freedom in the early days of the United States due to the frustration of the early Federalist.

Thomas Jefferson once wrote that "information is a democratic currency" or online learning is easy. Fortunately, he has never written such a thing, it is easy to learn. Those who operate Jefferson 's home website at Monticello can not find quotes in Jefferson' s paper. And you do not have to spend time searching at all. Founder of the United States rarely talks about democracy and did not call the US government "Republican" rather than calling "democracy". They believe democracy is unstable and unpopular. So I can be confident that Jefferson never said or written these words.