"Every Home Is Wired": 4 -- Towards a Strategic Progressive Rock Community

"Every Home Is Wired":
4 -- Towards a Strategic Progressive Rock Community

However, "the technology that makes virtual communities possible has the potential to bring enormous leverage to ordinary citizens at relatively little cost. ... But the technology will not in itself fulfil that potential; this latent technical power must be used intelligently and deliberately by an informed population" (Rheingold 4). Friedland adds that we are "beginning to create public spaces in which new forms of information and relationship- building can circulate. This allows for both the practical strengthening of grassroots democratic organising and its growth, and extension to new citizenship groups" (207). Such developments necessarily threaten established societal hierarchies, of course, and serve to further the present segmentation, but, given sufficient and constructive involvement of large enough sections of the population, they might also lead to the emergence of new, unifying societal structures. As Frederick sees it, "in the last decade there has emerged a new kind of global community, one that has increasingly become a force in international relations. We speak of the emergence of global civil society, that part of our collective lives that is neither market nor government but is so often inundated by them" (284).	Bit 18

However, "the technology that makes virtual communities possible has the potential to bring enormous leverage to ordinary citizens at relatively little cost. ... But the technology will not in itself fulfil that potential; this latent technical power must be used intelligently and deliberately by an informed population" (Rheingold 4). Friedland adds that we are "beginning to create public spaces in which new forms of information and relationship- building can circulate. This allows for both the practical strengthening of grassroots democratic organising and its growth, and extension to new citizenship groups" (207). Such developments necessarily threaten established societal hierarchies, of course, and serve to further the present segmentation, but, given sufficient and constructive involvement of large enough sections of the population, they might also lead to the emergence of new, unifying societal structures. As Frederick sees it, "in the last decade there has emerged a new kind of global community, one that has increasingly become a force in international relations. We speak of the emergence of global civil society, that part of our collective lives that is neither market nor government but is so often inundated by them" (284).

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