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| 论文语言：English |
| 论文国家：China |
| 登出日期： 2007-07-25 |
| 字数： 5000 |
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| 关键词搜索：AC640 Government Public Policy Political Communication Citizens and Culture |
was involved in
early computer research at Xerox PARC, and wrote one of the first histories of the personal
computer, Tools for Thought. Later books like The Virtual Community and Smart Mobs have
a world-wide readership, and have made him someone non-experts read to understand the
nature and implications of new technologies.
This article is about politics of a different kind. It addresses how technology and people
come together to achieve outcomes supportive of the common good. These can be formal
political goals, such as was evident in the unprececented and successful use of the web to
support Howard Dean’s campaign for the U.S. Democratic Party in 2004. They can also be
informal and not political, such as a blog reporting on the Canucks or a group of friends who
text each other about a party they’re attending.
a. the value of cooperation
Microsoft’s massive “campus” in Richmond, Washington is the setting for an interview with
March Smith, a sociologist who assists Microsoft in understanding the relationship between
technologies and human social behaviour. Rheingold, who in his previous book The Virtual Community examined how people cooperate on the Internet, interviews Smith on the
evidence of cooperation in the new wireless world of PDAs, mobile laptop computing,
texting, and cell phones.
The wireless world provides a new opportunity to study how people can cooperate and pool
knowledge or achieve other social ends greater th英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】an the sum of the parts each contributes.
Collective action is hardly new: cooperation is one of those phenomena that defines us as
human beings. But new technologies, especially wireless ones that allow people to
communicate in untethered ways, extend the power of cooperation—and the problems that
can follow—enormously. Cheap and powerful technologies have lowered the cost of entry
st
century chance to examine
into technologically-assisted cooperation, and the result is a 21
some ancient challenges in collective action.
Collective action is the foundation of most forms of political behaviour. We come together
informally with friends or neighbours to run a community watch program or clean up a park;
we create political parties to pool policy, financial, and human resources in pursuit of an
ideology and a platform; we join millions in voting in elections that give formal expression to
the public’s preferences; or we participate in larger social movements committed to
guaranteeing access to abortion or to restoring traditional moral values we believe that the
modern world has compromised.
b. what we cooperate for: public goods
Much collective action is organized around the conservation of what Rheingold calls “public
goods.” Public goods are resources “from which all may benefit, regardless of whether they
help create it.” Our social lives are full of public goods: broadcast TV and radio, parks,
inventions, fresh air and water, fish
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