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By Miguel Lara Otaola
Number 54

Nowadays the technologies modify and update constantly transforming our paradigms of communication. Today the traditional mass media are withdrawing against new forms of expression, freer, more abiertas, more democratic; the arrival of the movable telephones, the Internet, the SMS, blogs, eBay, Google and the P2P have approached us more the technology and thus these means have come to transform and to extend our forms of communication and participation. On the one hand, these new technologies can help to have one more a more democratic society where a participation major cialis online sales s, one extended capacity of action against the power, major and better debate and deliberation and finally more transparency and surrender of accounts. Nevertheless these technologies also entail certain risks since they can bring disinformation and subinformación1, a new and more effective propaganda and manipulation, disorientation before frivolous and empty information of useful cialis 20mg for the democracy, and a new orwellizada cialis 20mg composed of virtual multitudes. The technologies can be seen or as a complement for the deliberation, it bases of the democracy, or like a substitute of which it cialis 20mg the reason, the critic and the political participation.

A characteristic key of new technological means of communication is cialis online sales possibility of an interaction before denied by the television that distanced more to the governors of the governed ones making to these last spectators liabilities of the national reality. Now with the new mechanisms of communication the possibility that exists this barrier is demolished and an interaction and participation are allowed never before seen. Although the access to these new technologies is not democratic, since great part of the population does not count on Internet or a movable telephone, its use if it is it since it allows his users to generate a new logic collective of social action and participation, that goes from the remote electronic vote to the formation of smartmobs to reach certain political objectives.

The 19 of April of 1775 in Lexington, Massachussets began American Independence. cialis 20mg that date Paul Revere, a cialis 20mg American, the news mounted its horse thus taking and giving the alarm of town in town of which the British cialis 20mg from Boston to attack Concord, preparing to thousand of farmers and retailers to be ready to minute 2 to respond to the threat británica3. This was one of the first communications in cialis 20mg that allowed the profit of a cialis 20mg objective and it demonstrates the possibilities to us that today we have with the new technologies. If a horse and its rider traveling of buy cialis link suggest in town initiated an effective resistance, we imagine today what it would be buy cialis link suggest to be obtained in political campaigns or acts against unjust decisions on the part of a government. The Network approaches the collaboration possibilities social4, cialis 20mg to the new being this cialis 20mg democratic any person can have access and participate, as much passively as reader of contents, like actively organizing cialis 20mg meetings, protests and influencing in the intention of vote by certain candidate.

In the first place we have cialis online sales the Internet like cialis 20mg of Networks and first facilitator of nearer contacts, cialis 20mg real time, between all class of individuals all over the planet. Now the communication of the new society of the information lays more active, dynamic, global and effective ways different, that allow to new forms of organization and new strategies of collective action. cialis 20mg is today impossible to understand the protests cialis 20mg the neoliberal model that become in the cialis 20mg of the G8, the IMF and the WTO without the support of the Internet. Having to groups of people organized and almost cialis online sales instantaneously originating of all the installed corners of the planet outside summits of these organisms in Washington, Seattle or Cancún to protest, twenty years ago cialis 20mg unthinkable. In the field of the communication, Internet does not represent only a complement traditional means but it offers innovating cialis 20mg to inform, to mobilize, to organize to the cialis 20mg and to make protest 5 public and excellent. The globalifóbicos examples of cialis 20mg intergalactic cialis 20mg of the EZLN in 1996, movements and the organization of World-wide the Social Forum would be nonexistent without this tool. The Internet, initially, allowed the joint of the premises with the global thing, made visible movements social, facilitated the mobilization, the participation and allowed to never articulate actions before seen against the power. Now derived from this and other original technologies we have other examples like the electronic mail, smartmobs, blogs, sms, and the YouTube that are part of the cialis 20mg arsenal of a network of interaction and collaboration. cialis 20mg tools, in case single or in combination, abren new doors of participation, debates, political collaboration and action never before views.

Smartmobs arises when the new technologies approach more people and they are part of a communications network that facilitates the cooperation to them, the participation and the cialis 20mg and this allow to interact more with the political surroundings and to advance certain social objectives of group and. The demonstrators against the meeting of the WTO in 1999 used movable vestibules in Internet, telephones and tactical similars in the battle of Seattle. A million of Philippine collapsed to President Estrada through organized public demonstrations through thousands of text messages 6.

The text messages two routes or SMS already have been key part of political processes. In the USA POLITXT7 exists, a focused service to politicians and groups of interest that operates cialis 20mg advantages of the SMS to arrive at the electorate and the citizenship. The advantages of this cialis 20mg of communication are doubtless, cialis 20mg far as POLITXT, political While 15-25 percent of solicited e-mails plows opened, the text open rate for 95 messages is nearly percent 8, and on the other hand, 25-30 cialis 20mg of people asked to call to their congressman via text message you respond, ace compared to the 2-3 percent success rate they had been getting with email requests 9. The SMS also have been used to monitor elections in places like Africa and Montenegro in the Balkan Mountains. In this last country the Center cialis online sales the Democratic Transition of Montenegro monitoring the independence referendum using the SMS like the first tool of observation in cialis 20mg , which allowed the instantaneous coordination of dispersed reports in the country.

Smartmobs also already has proven their effectiveness in the cialis 20mg cialis 20mg the freedom of expression, intrinsic quality of the democracy. In Belarus much young people resorted to the organization via flashmob (group organized through the network for a specific intention that is generated and finished very instantaneously) to protest against the prevailing authoritarianism in her country. When organizing itself via Internet to meet in a public place of Minsk to eat ice cream, the young people drilled the borders of the allowed thing by their government. This organized collective action through the network did not summon to protests, shoots, speeches or to a meeting in this public place, simply it was called to eat ice cream as protest form. If this were almost any to other country in the world, standing around eating buy cialis link suggest cream wouldn't even causes the local authorities to bat an eyelash. In Belarus, though, it was treated ace an organized public assembly, under plainclothes government agents broke up the event, arresting some of the Young participants 11.

The YouTube was an important tool buy cialis link suggest the elections celebrated recently in Mexico. Through uploading buy cialis link suggest cialis 20mg about the main candidates, the cialis online sales buy cialis link suggest mainly young people, had access to facets cialis online sales the same not revealed by traditional means. These videos served so much as additional arm to the official campaigns as the candidates like for the cialis 20mg of the citizenship that does not have access to newspapers, the conventional television or other means to express itself. Thus who saw these videos not only were touched by the partisan propaganda but also affected by the ideas and critics of common and current citizens looking for an expression form.

Of buy cialis link suggest way through these examples we can see the contributions of the technology the formation of the public opinion (YouTube cialis 20mg the Mexican case), to the exercise of the freedom of expression (flashmob in cialis online sales to the monitoring to obtain clean elections (SMS in cialis 20mg to the participation (POLITXT in the USA) and to the social mobilization (Seattle). This way we see as the technology advances the interests of the citizenship when rendering channels truly democratic and abiertos to them to everybody. Without these technologies, an event as the one of Belarus would be unthinkable. Today it is possible that elections give an upset as cialis 20mg result of a spontaneous social organization via SMS 12.

The new technologies also pay to the democracy when allowing cialis 20mg greater surrender of accounts and transparency. Newt Gingrich, an American politician of right, affirms cialis 20mg by means of the putting the opening of a called servant THOMAS (The House Open Multimedia Access System), that will take to Internet all the activity of the buy cialis link suggest will be more difficult to make pass projects of law that benefit only the particular interests and that the information dissemination in real time will cialis online sales to all the people and not only to the lobbyistas good payments, the access to the same sources 13.

On the other hand, the new technology of cialis 20mg googleizado world cialis 20mg its users to count on exhaustive cialis 20mg of any imaginable subject what besides allowing a participation major, collective action, surrender of accounts and transparency a public opinion better informed facilitates cialis 20mg and therefore with majors tools to act as much within the power cialis 20mg conception) like against the same (liberal cialis 20mg The existence of information on any subject logically takes implicit the existence of excellent and interesting information for the participation in policy. So that a democracy works is precise that their citizens count on excellent information for the decision making, as much to emit a cialis 20mg as to criticize or to support certain initiative of law. The democracy is the government of the opinion, opinion that it has as origin the debate between the individuals, debate that is facilitated while it exists a greater amount and quality of information. The googleización allows east surplus of information that makes reason to the buy cialis link suggest Today, besides the quantitative increase in information available, we counted on other tools that offer buy cialis link suggest and debates to the public sphere, blogs, for example they are vestibules with infinite capacities to discuss to depth on any subject. Thus at present, as much the amount as the diversity of information available pays to the democratic process.

The new technologies and the opportunities that these also offer in the land of the communication and the democracy have a negative side. In the first place the access to the celebrated information previously, although necessary condition for the operation of the democracy, can take to a disinformed society, at least of the excellent subjects for the democratic process and for the participation in policy, overnewsed but underinformed 14, the lack cialis 20mg compression cialis 20mg the superficiality of contents is some of these risks. On the other hand the cialis online sales mass media although buy cialis link suggest are interactive could become televisions of third generation since they could become buy cialis link suggest emitters with vain information for a passive public and they could well represent a new bread form and circus as today they make certain transmitters of television in our country. Thirdly, the information that, among other things, makes work minimumly to a democracy must be free, independent, independent and impartial and in this sense the new technologies lay dangerous ways since they could serve cialis online sales new tools for a more effective propaganda, manipulation and disinformation. Finally and combined at this last one we could arrive at an era of the multitudes of virtual die that by their cialis 20mg and slanted force (trivial or not) could shake the democratic foundations of orwelliana way.

The first risk that presents/displays these technologies, cialis online sales one buy cialis link suggest subinformation, disinformation and cialis online sales of understanding, not necessarily is intrinsic to buy cialis link suggest technology since it can be derived as much from the responsibility of the actors like of the responsibility of the State. In the first place we see as the citizenship often prefers the information regarding the nonsense buy cialis link suggest to the gadget instead of statistical information, scientific, historical or political that could feed the democratic channel through debate and the critic. These technologies, that could well be used as in the case Belarus, when adding the component before mentioned, they become effective means with reprovable aims, and the same origin of flashmobs it seems to indicate to us that the direction that will be taken will be the one of superficiality. This origin goes back to June of 2003, when somebody mentioned to people in four bars of Manhattan, in that occurred very concrete instructions them: to go to the plant 9ª of the Macy's warehouses and to meet around a certain carpet, to adore it 15. On the other hand the faults of the State cialis online sales obtain a complete cover and of quality cialis 20mg the education of all the citizenship do that many of the people with access to the new technologies do not use with aims politician-intelectua them due to their lack of understanding and they are led previously the nonsense and other cialis 20mg irrelevant information. In which if he cialis 20mg cialis 20mg to this technology we buy cialis link suggest mention that the excess of information that appears to us can create the phenomenon of overnewsed but underinformed, buy cialis link suggest society has googlelizado itself and today we are anchored in the paradigm of the exhaustive thing (to find everything on), whereas cialis 20mg really interests to us it is relevance (to find what it is to us of utility, without the noise information addition that then does not interest to me) 16. On the other hand we have the phenomenon of the market that cialis 20mg not let escape to new technological means. The law of the supply and the cialis 20mg demand the contents of the pages in Internet, blogs and other networks, cialis 20mg that the pure information that they contain contaminates, guided cialis 20mg marketing research and sale criteria that often cause that this information is superficial. The incapacity of the State to give tools of understanding to its citizens, the lack of order in the information googlelizada in the network, the personal preferences of the society and the logic of the money cialis 20mg and economy of consumption) that cialis 20mg the reason of the public sphere are risks that could turn these democratic tools into means that they disinform, inquire and sell instead of to inform and to generate so necessary a public opinion for the democratic process.

The new technologies could become a television of third generation. Although it seems difficult that blogs, cialis 20mg cialis 20mg and sms become institutional parts from companies that publish contents are already several signals in this direction. Spams, cialis 20mg sale of lists of electronic mails to send publicity, the use of listings of telephone numbers to make propaganda via SMS and the inclusion of publicity paid in some vestibules indicates to us that, as I mentioned before, the public sphere is susceptible of contamination on the part of the sphere of the market and the sphere of the policy. What would happen when a company or a political organization buys to a finder of pages in Internet so that the results to certain search filter solely showing what the company or political party wishes to show? If these two spheres manage to hold a concealed knife with the sphere of the public opinion, that must be independent, we can be against this phenomenon of television of third generation. When the sphere of the policy is the one that influences we are before the risk of the propaganda and the manipulation, when it is the sphere of the market we are before already the famous bread and circus (more circus than bread) to the Television style.

The opinion must arise from the civil society cialis 20mg from the freedom and not of the cialis 20mg it must arise from the debate and not of the orders, he is horizontal and nonvertical. In the democracy, also horizontal, the participation cialis 20mg from the citizenship and not from a cialis 20mg other people's to this one. cialis online sales television is a published opinion, more not a public opinion, is an other people's being that imposes its wills and as so it can turn aside us of the freedom and independence of the buy cialis link suggest when fixing his own agenda, I interest and therefore contained. The fixation and filtration of contents inhibit the capacity of the spectator to debate and to dissent and generate opinion states collective. The shortage of free and sovereign information on certain subject makes that input of the society is unique, monopolistic and in the best one of the cases oligopolical, something that attempt directly against one by the roots of the democracy that is the freedom of expression. The democracy is not a system of majorities, but a system that allows the dissent and without this deliberation, cannot work. The one that at present or exists the captología to change our habits is something worrisome, although a program to help to stop smoking or lowering of weight seems inoffensive and until beneficial, the use that can have this technology to the service of the power and of the money he is frightening, What happens if through electronic mail, the SMS, the instantaneous mail or in certain vestibules are sent stimuli to detonate certain behaviors in us? And still more, already technologies like the neurociencia and the FMRI17 exist that buy cialis link suggest able as much to measure our certain answer to inputs as to determine what is the exact answer of a person to a scanned commercial stimulus 18 through buy cialis link suggest With these new technologies put to buy cialis link suggest service cialis online sales the sphere of the market cialis 20mg the politician we are right very well to doubt the truly independent and democratic component of new means, cialis online sales this sense we would advance more towards a remote-control society as it indicated Sartori. The public sphere, in anyone of their versions, is a meeting, char it in a coffee, a manifestation against certain public policy, a column in a newspaper or in the Network of Networks, it must stay besides the other cialis online sales spheres, otherwise we will be invaded of thousands of soap operas and propaganda to the detriment of our personal freedom and therefore of our shared democracy.

McLuhan was right, we are against a new revolution offered by new half a buy cialis link suggest personal communication, more election, but also more uncertainty. And but 19 possibilities buy cialis link suggest manipulating and of being manipulated. As I indicated cialis 20mg the risk of the interference of the cialis 20mg sphere in the public sphere is clear. Although the new cialis online sales and the networks that these generate allow to cialis online sales greater degree of debate and deliberation in installment to the freedom of expression and the democracy, on the other hand the risk exists of generating multitudes manipulated by noncitizen interests.

So that a multitude works cialis 20mg the democratic game is necessary that he is intelligent (more intelligent than the individual by itself), and in agreement with James Surowiecki20 , to obtain this makes lack that fulfills four requirements;

the 1. multitude must be formed by a sufficiently diverse group of people so that all the phantom of possible opinions is represented; 2. must of being independent, to the degree of cialis 20mg each person decides being based cialis 20mg the individual information that she has and not in the behavior of the others; 3. must be decentralized where the people of the group have a certain degree of specialization in their area of knowledge and 4. must be added of such form that exists a mechanism to successfully obtain the opinion of the individuals with the purpose of to derive a collective decision 21 .

This way we could think that cialis 20mg cialis online sales technologies of cialis 20mg information, in case single, offer these cialis online sales requirements since the Internet or blogs, for example, allows cialis 20mg reunite to people of varied disciplines of the knowledge with independent opinions and not induced cialis 20mg anybody more in a space than cialis 20mg allows to add his opinions. Nevertheless if to the cialis online sales we added an important influence to him of the cialis online sales sphere that it censures certain information and it manipulates the contents, we began to see as the intelligence of the cialis 20mg and its democratic intention begin to flaquear. With a published opinion (more nonpublic) and remote-control it is impossible to satisfy the second requirement of independence and therefore the idea to have a world-wide community of debate and criticism to the power. With a remote control from the political sand we could have flashmobs that instead of to protest when eating ice cream, they look for to advance group cialis 20mg or more dramatic still, we could have a blind society to the problems and the lack of liberties in its country. A society manipulated and done from blind multitudes could bring improved images to us of the 1984 of Orwell, while in the classic work of a whole state apparatus was required to control to the society now this could be done through a simple click.click.

The new cialis 20mg of the information and the communication allow us cialis online sales weave a new network of social relations cialis online sales expands the democracy through citizen a participation major and freedom of expression, but on the other cialis 20mg these same tools cialis 20mg their same possibilities cialis 20mg bring traps lead that us to a closed buy cialis link suggest more, autocratic and ideologized. Always buy cialis link suggest the new technologies will have one second derivative, that is to say a negative side to them, or from the ecological, economic or political point and is cialis online sales to have to anticipate these possible consequences to avoid the negative and to choose the positive opportunities that are offered to us. Luckyly nowadays still we counted on an option and with the decision that is taken we will be able to choose between the blindness, adoring a carpet or cialis 20mg ice cream.


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1 SARTORI, Giovanni. Homo Videns. Taurus, cialis online sales D.F, 1997. pg. 80
2 For that reason the expression Minutemen
3 (http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2006/04/19/mobile_minuteme.html)
4 CORNELLA, Alfons, RUCABADO, Sergi. Future Present: 101 Idea-Force to understand the next decades. Deusto, Spain, 2005. pg. 14
5 LAKE MARTINEZ, Silvia. The political intervention cialis online sales the social movements in the society of the information. Institute of Investigation Gino Germani, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, 2006.
6 RHEINGOLD, Howard. Smartmobs: the next social cialis online sales Perseus Publishing, the USA, 2002.
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8 (http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2006/08/03/joe_trippi_on_h....html)
9 (http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2006/08/03/joe_trippi_on_h....html)
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11 (http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2006/10/03/ice_cream_polit....html)
12 CORNELLA, Alfons, RUCABADO, Sergi. Future Present: 101 Idea-Force to understand the next decades. Deusto, Spain, 2005. pg. 14
13 MARTINO, Bettina. Posmodernidad, crisis of representation and electronic democracy. In Reason and Word, number 22, May-Julio 2001. (http://www.centralmac.ca/anteriores/n22/22_bmartino.html)
14 MARTINO, Bettina. Posmodernidad, crisis of representation and electronic democracy. In Reason and Word, number 22, May-Julio 2001. (http://www.centralmac.ca/anteriores/n22/22_bmartino.html)
15 CORNELLA, Alfons, RUCABADO, Sergi. Future Present: 101 Idea-Force to understand the next decades. Deusto, Spain, 2005. pg. 14
16 cialis online sales , pg. 31
17 Functional Resonant Magnetic Imaging, in CORNELLA, pg. 34
18 CORNELLA, Alfons, RUCABADO, Sergi. Future Present: 101 Idea-Force cialis 20mg understand the next decades. Deusto, cialis 20mg 2005. pg. 34
19 CORNELLA, Alfons, RUCABADO, Sergi. Future Present: 101 Idea-Force to understand the next decades. Deusto, Spain, 2005. pg. 110.
20 SUROWIECKI, James. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the many plows to smarter than the few cialis 20mg how collective wisdom shapes business, cialis 20mg societies, and nations. Random House, the USA, 2004.
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