The Governor joined the state legislature in making a sociopolitical statement that Daniels understood would play well in the GOP primaries.

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But The Recession is not a top-to-bottom sociopolitical treatise.

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Shirky looks at online collaboration and knowledge aggregation among strangers, in the creation of everything from collections of embarrassing photos to documented human rights abuses, as the birth of a new sociopolitical force in the world.

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With a whimsically eclectic technique (including musical sequences and special effects), she sets in motion a flashy yet complex superstructure of personal life that rests on a solid, implicit base of quasi-divine technological power and sociopolitical openness and energy.

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