Wiki instead of political fuss on TV

    Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and the Wikia universal travel guide , encouraged representatives of interested political parties to participate in the discussion of the new project.

    In his address to political bloggersJimmy Wales literally says the following: “For more than fifty years we have lived in the era of television politics. In the 50s. television first began to have a major impact on politics, and the results were stunning. Broadcast media has given us broadcast television policy. To be completely honest, we must admit: conservative or liberal, right or left, but television politics is dumb, dumb and dumb. ” Under the influence of TV, political campaigns began to adapt more and more to the format of television, and so far have largely turned into a television show.

    At the same time, at the beginning of the XXI century, blogs and wiki formed on the Internet a new information space - the blogosphere. According to Jimmy Wales, new media are quite capable of giving rise to a new era of politics. Unlike broadcasting campaigns, a new type of policy will be more intelligent, closer to people and will involve the participation of every citizen.

    In the future, professional advisers who take part in political campaigns will have to closely monitor the blogosphere and coordinate their actions with it. Only a politician who has managed to build a wide community of involved participants online will be able to win the election.

    For such a future to become a reality, you need to start work now. Jimmy Wales encourages everyone to register on the new Campaigns Wikia sitecreated specifically for conducting political campaigns, as well as subscribing to the mailing list , where professional issues will be discussed: how to eradicate the practice of "broadcast television policy" and switch to an intellectual, blog-based, future policy.

    The Jimmy Wales Initiative is not the first step on the road to "network democracy." Earlier, projects appeared that were designed to accelerate the transition to a new political system, which will be based on Internet technologies. For example, the wiki-project Democracy 2.0 - This is a conceptual experiment in the field of joint legislative activity. The project is based on the hypothesis that a wide circle of ordinary citizens are able to jointly create ideal laws of their country, so that people can easily refuse the services of the legislative branch of power.

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