TRWNBT

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is an engaging and thought-provoking book for anyone interested in Politics, the Internet or anything in between(technology, post-modern culture etc) written by Joe Trippi who "unwittingly found [him]self in the right spot at the beginning of the twenty-first century, maybe the one guy who might have a chance at pulling together this grassroots, nuts-and-bolts, knock-on-doors, send-e-mails, use-the-Internet bulletin board-website political movement thing." (TRWNBT, 2004)

From Howard Dean's campaign manager in the 2004 US presidential election, this book could be seen as a campaign memoire of sorts but is far wider in its scope than that. I'm half way through but thoroughly recommend it. Do you 'get it'? Do you get the internet's power? Do you get the potential of the internet as a social space and tool for change and good in our twenty first century society? Is your organisation 'of' the internet or just 'on' it? What's the difference? Do I 'get it', even though I'm studying it, do I understand that potential and how 'real' an experience online interaction is for so many people?