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Feb 23 2011

Review: ‘…like a chick cracking open its shell’

Posted by Dan Gillmor in Mediactive Book, Mediactive Project

At MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media, Jack Driscoll sees Mediactive as a common-sense follow-up to We the Media. The book, he writes, assumes “we no longer are receptacles of information but active participants in the process, who are called on to break out of our ‘comfort zone’ like a chick cracking open its shell.”

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