I’ll be away for a couple of weeks, so here is the last set of links for the year. Happy New Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saving Democracy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n I am worried about democracy these days. Our electoral politics are ravaged by social media manipulation, an absence of policy discussion, and the influence of money. Governance affords very little opportunity for meaningful citizen participation. Harold Jarche is worried too, and in this pots he tackles the question of how to save democracy head on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our institutions are failing us. They were designed for the age of print, not an electrically connected one. We need new structures and the current wave of returns to tribalism manifested as populism<\/a> will not save us. As the advent of the printing press helped usher in an age of inquiry, first in the Christian religion and later in the enlightenment and scientific revolutions, so we have to engage in creating new organizational and governance structures for a global network era.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n If print enabled democracy, will the emerging electric\/digital medium destroy it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n