I’m at the Politics Online conference today in Washington, DC, on a panel with Dan “Citizen Journalism” Gillmor and Alex “Shorenstein Center” Jones, moderated by Chris “Spot-On” Nolan. We’re talking about what’s changed in the past year (or whatever Chris wants us to talk about).

I’d say that what’s changed is that we’ve decided we’re fed up. Fed up with the same-old of politics, as reflected in the polls. Fed up with the voiceless voice of authority that comes from the media, as reflected in the blogosphere.

Put ’em together and I think we’re seeing a rejection of the institutional use of alienation as a way of controlling us, always for our own good of course. Now we’re discovering one another, which is how we overcome alienation.

(I’d define “alienation,” but that would expose the vapidness of what I’m thinking. So, let’s just leave it as a nice-sounding term, ok?) [Tags: politics media politics+online]

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