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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 09 Feb 10 - Cached

the most modern communication tools — blogs, podcasts, YouTube — are actually returning us to an ancient form of media, one in which everyone participates on almost equal footing.
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fundamental human urge to tell our own stories
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Before mass media, before the written word — for all of human history — story-telling was a shared privilege.
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Mass media succeeded in creating a common culture, but did nothing to foster the communities that naturally emerge when people tell their stories to each other.
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Now, finally, there is a counter-trend.
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Howard Rheingold framed it beautifully, when he wrote The Virtual Community, nearly 15 years ago: "Perhaps cyberspace is one of those informal public places, where people can rebuild the aspects of community that were lost when the malt shop became a mall."
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newest digital technologies are returning us to the most ancient form of media — one in which a natural order is restored; our individual stories take center stage
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shared by Vanessa Vaile on 19 Apr 10 - No Cached

I don’t feel like a displaced person, but more like a ball being buoyed by an invisible network of friends and strangers, all connecting to me and with each other via the Internet.
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Does it make sense to rely on one’s online social network in times of crisis?
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But at every moment, whether I was hearing from friends or strangers, I was comforted knowing that people were looking out for me. And I got a lot of useful answers when I needed them.
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what failed this past week was not the Internet, but corporate and government agency websites. They’ve been rendered useless by this crisis because they operate under a no-fail rule: nothing can be posted on them unless cleared from above
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By contrast, the networked public sphere of bloggers, friends and strangers grouping around hashtags and online social networks, has been doing what it always does: sharing information, offering support, highlighting problems and improvising solutions.
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fluid, open and collaborative,
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