Future Here Now: A Plea to be Real

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My new book, Tell Ask Discuss Decide, gives a new handbook for doing meaningful public engagement — online and off. And it’s almost done.

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It i interesting to wrap up a book on uses of technology with a plea for better public engagement in the real world, but as the past couple of pages demonstrate, the challenge of doing digital public engagement cannot be divorced from the problem of doing public engagement in general. Digital tools simply provide a different avenue to meeting an objective that existed before the internet was invented.

In too many cases in these early years of digital public engagement, we have simply moved bad in-person practices to an digital space.