http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/10/08/comrades-join-the-peer-progressive-movement/?print=true
"Peer progressives believe that 'peer networks,' consisting of many
people of roughly equal status freely swapping ideas and information,
can accomplish things that top-down, centralized, hierarchical
organizations can’t. Peer progressives 'believe in social progress, and
we believe the most powerful tool to advance the cause of progress is
the peer network.'
That quote comes from the new book by science writer Steven Johnson: Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age (Riverhead Books), which I just reviewed for The Wall Street Journal."
OMG! There's actually an ICA movement now?? Yay! I try to be an ICA evangelist, and am glad to see something like this. Now off to order that book!
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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