ABSTRACT
Pam Paul, a midsummer Oklahoma volunteer for the Dean campaign, tells her extraordinary story of transformation from a disengaged voter to a committed grassroots activist, organizing over sixty events and keeping in direct contact with thousands of Dean supporters, and Dean himself. Her story is the technology from the other side—what the tools did for her, in context, to bring her into the campaign and then make her work possible. In her straightforward way, her story cannot help but inspire—she eventually set up her own website, helped organize the Oklahoma Rapid Response Network, and was involved in creating independent ads for her candidate. But she does not bring a Pollyannaish approach—instead she tells a story of action and the development of political autonomy.
