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Posted 2 months ago with 61 notesFrom OWS to TED, Where Spontaneous Sentiment Meets Community Organizing
The rise of social media has made creating new groups so easy that impermanent, action-oriented collectives are now becoming part of our daily lives. From Change.org to the TED Prize and Stop SOPA to Occupy Wall Street, mini movements of self-organized citizens are growing at an incredible rate on- and offline.
I love the term “Spontaneous...Organizing” but I wonder whether “spontaneous sentiment” is...
This capacity for coming together around particular issues — flash mob organizing, as it were — is one