EmergentDemocracyISCPresentation

• Thesis - Blogs, Wikis and other tools lower cost of personal communication, collaboration and organization and increase signal to noise

• Explain Blogs, Wikis and how they are different

• Discuss impact of blogging on journalism and the role of journalism in democracy

• Trent Lott

• New bloggers

• Explain emergence

• Network Effects

• Strength of weak ties

• Neuronal recruitment

• What is democracy?

• Quick note about how the broken democracy is the cause of many problems in Japan

• Direct democracy vs. Representative Democracy

• Critical Debate and the Competition of Ideas

• Protecting the minority

• Privacy

• Transparency and accountability

• Examples of new ideas

• Mayfield's Layers

• Liquid Democracy

• Deliberative Polling

• Schedule