Comments on: Reflections on eAction News: Millennials Torn Between Individual and Collective, Myth and Reality http://blog.thepoint.com/2008/07/01/reflections-on-eaction-news-millennials-torn-between-individual-and-collective-myth-and-reality/ Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:28:54 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Josh http://blog.thepoint.com/2008/07/01/reflections-on-eaction-news-millennials-torn-between-individual-and-collective-myth-and-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-496 Josh Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:40:52 +0000 http://blog.thepoint.com/?p=218#comment-496 <p>i agree with your take on this -- she gets the myth of individualism right but misses the point about how the internet is helping us create groups and collective action.</p> <p>I actually responded to her in an email. Here's some of what I said:</p> <p><strong>while not perfect, the so-called web 2.0 revolution has re-introduced the idea of collective, group action to millions of people. While friending people and even building many-thousands strong groups on Facebook won't necessarily change the world (I'm not convinced that physical marches do either...), they are orienting people in the ways of organizing and social action for the first sustained way in a generation.</p> <p>If there is collective action to be had, it's gonna happen online, with offline correlates. </strong></p> i agree with your take on this — she gets the myth of individualism right but misses the point about how the internet is helping us create groups and collective action.

I actually responded to her in an email. Here’s some of what I said:

while not perfect, the so-called web 2.0 revolution has re-introduced the idea of collective, group action to millions of people. While friending people and even building many-thousands strong groups on Facebook won’t necessarily change the world (I’m not convinced that physical marches do either…), they are orienting people in the ways of organizing and social action for the first sustained way in a generation.

If there is collective action to be had, it’s gonna happen online, with offline correlates.

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