Weblogs e participaçao política Merece referência a entrevista dada por Howard Rheingold à última ediçao da Business Week, intitulada "A Major Change in the Political Equation". Nela Rheingold fala sobretudo do modo como a Internet e os grupos de pressao estao a afectar as eleiçoes presidenciais norte-americanas e a vida política em geral. A uma pergunta sobre se os weblogs nao poderiam vir a conferir maior visibilidade a um discurso radical, em detrimento de posiçoes moderadas, responde Rheingold: "You got a million or 10 million bloggers out there. A bunch of them are nutcases. A lot of them are at the extreme ends. Many of them are totally uninformed. Some of them are going to be decent journalists. Some of them are going to be better than the pros. I think there's a Darwinian process when you have a large number of people doing it. If 10 million people are publishing their own opinions instead of sitting slack-jawed in front of the tube, that's got to be healthier for the public sphere. The mass media have disempowered people from the process and made them feel disempowered." (Entrevista referenciada no ContraFactos e Argumentos).
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