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shared by Maria Rosario Di Mónaco on 09 Dec 10 - No Cached

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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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