Charles Tilly:
we have reason to believe that a) unmediated person to person connections still play crucial parts in the bulk of transnational social movement organizing
"Mark D. Johns" <johnsmar@luther.edu>:
Would that I had said it so succinctly. My point concerning my caucus experience exactly.
This seems to be a more general aspect of communication activity. Consider, for example, that in the century following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, almost all persons in England changed personal given names from Anglo-Saxons names to Norman names. Unmediated person-to-person connections were the driving force for this rapid change in personal names. Moreover, based on a measure of change in name distribution, the communication of names in the century subsequent to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 is comparable to the communication of names across twentieth century England and Wales. For data and discussion, see pp. 34-9 of Galbi, "A New Account of Personalization and Effective Communication," at www.galbithink.org Douglas Galbi