The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything
 

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything

by Joe Trippi

When Joe Trippi signed on to run Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, the long–shot candidate had 432 known supporters and $100,000 in the bank. Within a year, Trippi and his team had transformed the most obscure candidate in the field into a Democratic front–runner with a groundswell of 640,000 supporters and more money than any Democrat in history –– mostly through donations of one... (read more)

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Trippi's view of the Dean campaign,and how it utilised the web, is split into three main parts:
1)Trippi's campaigning history
2)The Dean Campaign
3)Trippi's view of the future.
Whilst I thoroughly enjoyed the first two sections, and was interested in the bizarre and hideously expensive American system, I think Trippi gets a bit carried away in the third section. Whilst I agree with him that there is plenty of potential in mobilising social forces through the web, I don't...

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