White paper brainstorm, 27 January 2010
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Local / Global, Online / Offline
- Local nodes connected via online spaces
- Must there be local, f2f communication?
- Could it occur at cons?
- What about shared experiences like cinema?
- Or watching live events?
- Microstructures - "globalized imagination"
- Used to study terrorist cells
- Globalization in daily lives?
Tendency to map local:offline, global:online
- But can some sites be local?
- E.g., LRRG forum is my "local" online community
- Do people sense "distance" on the web?
- Aiwah Ong, micro/macro global flows
History continuities
- Various fandoms with links back in time
Past failures
- Nonprofits historically failing to galvanize pop cultures
- Working with rock concerts, etc.
Next steps
- Invisible children
- Harry Potter Alliance
- Methodological questions, challenges
- Pilots
- Connecting to 9/12 + Tea Party groups
- Battlecry
- Where there any fan groups supporting Scott Brown?
- Sports fans following Flutie?
Popular political
- Is Glenn Beck fandom inbounds?
- Is there a "tipping point" for those fan groups?
- When they are solicited to action (e.g. 9/12)?
