Power of the iMob | Chatham House: Independent thinking on international affairs

Power of the iMob | Chatham House: Independent thinking on international affairs: There are some grand claims for the movements. As The New York Times said: ‘Dot-org politics represents the latest manifestation of a recurrent American faith that there is something inherently good in the vox populi. Democracy is at its purest and best when the largest number of voices are heard, and every institution that comes between the people and their government – the press, the political pros, the fund-raisers – taints the process.'