It’s very hard to disagree with anything in this post:- the whole thing deserves a visit though:
“For starters: social media is a stupid term. Is there any anti-social media out there? Of course not. All media, by definition, is social in some way. The term interactive media, a more accurate term for what’s going on…”
And [...]
Posts on ‘July 4th, 2009’
Social media scepticism
Transparency – sticking plaster or panacea?
MySociety’s Tom Steinberg has, for some years, been urging government to adapt some of the lessons that successful websites have learned.
Here he is, writing one of the Reboot Britain essays serialised in The Independent.
“….most people are …familiar with Amazon’s ability to tell you that “people who bought this also bought that”, and increasingly “people who [...]
Conversational democracy and neighbourhood online networks
Kevin Harris has blogged about his planned contribution to the Reboot Britain ‘PICamp’ session – over here.
Here’s a flavour:
To my mind, it doesn’t work to suppose that people can be prodded and coerced into civic or political participatory roles when their experience of social participation is impoverished.
So it would help if we can develop [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
