Information Trumps Fear & Hierarchy?

The Harvard Business School review published a fascinating study about the dynamics of why some people feel free to speak out and others remain silent. I see implications for any kind of activism and consequently, change, including how we address global warming. The qualities these researchers identify as effecting change, are those routine on the internet.

The great hope of the world of the internet and blogs is that people feel comfortable to share any information they have. This is like the French peasants before the French revolution. They began keeping cahiers when they learned to read and write. Just the act of recording thier thoughts began to free them to act on thier needs and desires despite hierarchal constraints.

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=5261&t=organizations

The study is by HBS professor Amy Edmondson and her colleague, Professor James Detert from Penn State"