Sherrilynne Starkie

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

It was during the 2006 election that first signs that a grassroots movement was taking hold were spotted, according to Geist. This was when groups first started to come together to self-organize online.”. From then the movement grew: The Fair Copyright for Canada Facebook Group was launched in 2007 and soon had 90,000 members.

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Do John Naisbitt’s Megatrend predictions still hold true for 2018?

Sherrilynne Starkie

In 2006 a time when social media was just starting to take off, I wrote a summary list of his predictions, (and provided my feedback on each point). A handful of companies, such as Facebook and Google, dominate global markets. The break up of a unified society into diverse groups of people with different tastes and values.

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