http://www.buzzfeed.com/jruv/why-brazil-is-actually-winning-the-internet
"'We don’t make a difference by sitting behind our computers,' said Marcelo Tas, a Brazilian journalist with more than 5 million Twitter followers,
during a newscast with BandnewsTV the first week of the protests last
June. 'We’re meeting up in the streets. And it’s not just happening in
Rio and São Paulo. Small towns in the interior are protesting. We have a
whole country protesting.'
'It’s a really important moment we’re
living right now,' says Bia Granja, of the YouPix festival, which
gathers hundreds of thousands together at festivals across the country,
and millions together online,
to organize around digital issues they care about. Last year’s festival
in Rio hosted debates about Brazil’s internet legislation, the
persecution of the Rio funk movement, and Globo’s factually inaccurate
reporting of last June’s protests, interspersed with food contests, MC
battles, a well-attended workshop for YouTube content producers (and
Havaianas giveaways).
'We’re seeing big changes,' Granja says. 'Social networks are tools of empowerment we didn’t have before.'”
I had to read down pretty far in this article to start to notice anything very exciting. Maybe the first part was just history building up to the good stuff.
To summarize, Brazil uses the social media aspects of the Internet to give citizens a voice in their government.
Internet Collective Action is people organizing in a nonhierarchical manner to accomplish a particular goal. The reward is in the doing, and how much or how little anyone participates is completely voluntary, depending on their abilities and commitment to the goal. By this process amazing things can be accomplished. ICA will grow so long as the Internet is free. http://www.lisamcpherson.org/pc.htm is an example of ICA.
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