Deliberative Democracy…and the Tea Party
As I was browsing the web, I found yet another small discussion of deliberative democracy; here’s a small excerpt:
Deliberative democracy stems from the belief that democratic leadership should involve educating constituents about issues at hand, and that citizens may significantly alter their opinions when faced with information about these issues. Advocates of [...]
Google, again
I must say: whoever’s in charge of communciations at Google, they’re doing a good job. Having presented my thoughts on Eric Schmidt’s public speaking skills a while back, I now had the chance to see Arnauld Mitre of Google France. Asked about transparency issues surrounding Google Search’s algorithm, he said that they’re handling it the [...]
Bankrupting America Ad
Admittedly, this is good political advertisement: Stop Digging
What I’m fascinated by though is the implicit but efficient use of what I consider to be traditional “American iconography”: 1. the guy who’s “doing the job” (I think it’s not too far a stretch to imagine a rifle instead of a shovel…plus it’s a motive which I [...]
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Here we go:
http://www.faz.net/s/Rub7FC5BF30C45B402F96E964EF8CE790E1/Doc~E400678D137D843899DBE031140F0BD39~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html (German)
Politics is more and more perceived as the simulation of competence and influence. There’s work to do.
http://e-blogs.wikio.fr/le-blog-comme-outil-politique (French)
Blogs as an opportunity to “humanize” politics; I like this: I’d say you can “sell” “humanity” in politics both as authenticity/personalization and ethics, so the trick is to combine both of them efficiently.
http://nonprofitprforum.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-tea-party-means-for-communicators.html
But how can [...]
Love this gesture – Cameron
It’s like he’s calling on you, getting your willingness to participate. Then it also has this stock-broker business style to it – it’s like the ideal participatory yet business-like gesture. Very engaging and dynamic. Good stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6r1jdWkscw
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