Playing for Attention

It is interesting that UC Irvine's Center for Unconventional Security is honoring Playing for Change with its Human Security Award. Given how the term "security" functioned in the rhetoric of the Bush White House, it is certainly an attention-getting rhetorical choice to redefine the term to encompass a group that I've written about before here on Virtualpolitik. Playing for Change emphasizes collaborative music-making and recruiting musicians with the distributed social networks of the Internet.