Global citizens are connecting via the internet, and engaging in public reason - discussing matters that concern a greater good. They are riding the long tail, and using soft power to reconfigure social space, causing power to devolve downward, and ideas to spread outwards.

1. I Gotta be Me: Public Reason and the Hardwired Global Citizen A Digital Report From The Counter-Publics Working Group Daniel Drache, Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director Jaigris Hodson, Research Associate Please Send Comments to [email_address] September 2007 Eye Conics

2. I Gotta Be Me: Public Reason and The Hardwired Global Citizen

3. Who is the Global Citizen ? The Global Citizen engages in public reason across temporal and spatial boundaries using the tools available to her.

10. Global Citizens are everywhere!

16. The Long Tail is an economic model: This graph shows us how online retailers (in yellow) make most of their sales in small and obscure products that bricks and mortar retailers (in red) do not have space to carry. This speaks to the power of the Internet to circulate smaller ideas throughout a global audience.

20. Because of its bureaucratic, or militaristic nature, Hard Power is often wielded by government and corporate lawmakers. It is not normally used by the Global Citizen Where do we see Hard Power?

22. Soft Power vs. Hard Power Hard Power Marginalizes the Citizen. Soft Power gives the citizen legs and lung capacity

27. Closing of the Commons: Paranoia or Reality?

32. The Global Citizen in the Future ?