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The Wing and The SpringThe web-savviest political movements in Finland
Hub Helsinki Oct 4, 2011
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• Have managed to lift their issues from obscurity to the big parties’ and/or national media’s agenda
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Who are they?• The anti-immigration
wing of The Finns orThe True Finn
• The Helsinki Spring
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Here they come:
• The Finns’ wing…
• Estimated 4 percentturnout, if campaignedas an independentparty (Channel 4 news poll 23.9.2011)
• Levareges its power as an anti-immigrationmovement within the populist True Finnsparty
• The Helsinki Spring…
• A movementencompassing probablyup to thousands of university students
• Aims to boost the economy with a entrepreneurial ”startuprevolution”
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Web-savvy, but different toolsThe Wing…- Closed events- Discussion forums, media website commentarychains and blogs- Anonymity
The Spring…- Open events- Twitter, YouTube, blogs
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The Internet runs on love?
Criticism and hatred
• ”En vähäisimmässäkään määrin halua riskeerata tilannetta, jossa joutuisin maksamaan jollekin Afrikan sarven ihmissaastalle vahingonkorvauksia "kivusta ja särystä”.
• (Jussi Halla-Aho, MP TrueFinns on ”the humanscum of the Horn of Africa”.)
”Awesomeness”
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A political party?
The Wing…
A ”party within a party”
Conscious of its’ ideology and methods
Already experienced in working w/ the politicalsystem and the media
The Spring…
Does not see itself as a political movement?
Unconscious of its’ distinctideology
Ready to align with anybodyfrom Sdp to Coalition party
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Scope of action
Local Glocal
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Origins of ideology
European counter-jihadism Libertarianism
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Ideology
Nationalism
Anti-immigrant
Anti-EU
Protectionism?
Wealth distribution based on ethnicity
Globalism
Entrepreneurial capitalism
Free marketeer
Entrepreneurial immigration
Wealth distrubution based on merit
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Political achievements
7-10 MP’s within True Finnsparliamentary group
Legislative initiatives & modest risingsupport in Sdp and Coalition Party
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Conclusions and Q’s
• No political ideas grow without digitalcultivation
• ”Is web2.0 relevant to politics” is not the question – that has been answered severalyears ago
• But the interesting things on the Web aredone by others than the established politicalplayers
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• Like in business, in politics, too, this is an era of disruption
• The Internet is used to gain new markets. Old ”Nokia’s” fall.
• ”Old parties” live of adopting ideas from the Webosphere
• ”Old parties’”ideological development has driedout along with their incapability to adopt to the new communication environment
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Cause for concern?The Wing and The Spring have developed into
(almost) fullgrown political movements in opposite ends of the Internet with little or no
common ground or contact.
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• The Internet does not, for now, provide a platform for negotiation and deliberationbetween extremes
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• Does the Parliament remain as the only suchfunctioning institution?
• Does the Internet as it now is actually worktowards a shattered society where decisionmaking is increasingly difficult?
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• If so, should we make every effort to buildtools and develop practices for decision
making on the internet?
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Thank you
Kiitos
http://avajaopen.fi/