The Distribution of Influence.
The Distribution of Choice provided a model for how individuals affiliate in groups within an Ecosystem of Networks. The constraint of time individuals invest in relationships determine the distribution of political, social and creative network affiliations. Memes are catalyzed and honed within creative networks, socialized within social networks and distributed by representative affiliates within political networks.
Such memes have proven to have political influence, as was the case with how weblogs are credited with bringing prominence and staying power to Trent Lott’s missteps leading to his resignation. But was this just the case of blogs feeding the media as a means of political influence or something different?
Joi Ito suggests there is a new pattern of Emergent Democracy being enabled through new tools such as weblogs. He suggests that as these tools evolve they could support a higher-level order through their emergent properties to result in a model closer to direct democracy. [more][Ross Mayfield's Weblog]
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