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Reflections on Power Shifts and the Fifth Estate with William H. Dutton OII Senior Fellow and an Oxford Martin Fellow, Oxford University and Emeritus Professor at USC
Via Zoom Via Zoom, Click View Event to RegisterVia Zoom | RSVP Here | or email quello@msu.edu In the eighteenth century, the printing press enabled the rise of an independent press – the Fourth Estate – that helped check the power of governments, business, and industry. In similar ways, the internet and related digital media are enabling the empowerment of many ordinary individuals to form a more independent collectivity of networked individuals – a Fifth Estate. In my new book, The Fifth Estate, I argue that this network power shift is not only enabling greater democratic accountability in politics and governance but is also helping networked individuals to be empowered in their […]
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