By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth and Participatory Politics

Consensus

How can activists build a sustainable consensus amongst competing interests in their own ranks? If the new forms of activism depend on dispersed and decentralized networks that often bring together diverse sets of participants, they struggle then to reach basic agreements about the causes they pursue and the tactics they adopt. This lack of coherence in messaging or consensus in goals has been one of the sharpest critiques of the Occupy Wall Street movement, but it has been an issue with every other movement we’ve studied.


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