I find Andrew Murphie's concept of micropolitics very interesting. With the Internet, the globalisation and linearisation of society, top down traditional politics are forced to change. The old hierarchical pyramid model promotes the power of an individual over a group, which is becoming more and more obsolete. Today's world is about connection, or as Castells puts it, networks. We are all realising more and more that a stronger power would come for a network of people interconnected working side by side. Communities are encouraged by new communication methods allowed by new technologies. https://www.couchsurfing.org/ is an example of a new communities of travelers, who can easily find each other through a website.
As Andrew Murphie explained it, micropolitics promote sharing, a society of double benefits where an exchange equally gives to both (or more) parties. By creating more community networks, we are encouraged to think of new ways to communicate. In addition, it is now easy to generate niche communities who wouldn't have been able to reach each other before. Micropolitics today is just an overview of how the world will communicate tomorrow, in a more linear or networked manner, where everyone has a same weight and a same power.
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