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My Definition of Digital Activism

A quick equation for how digital activism transpires: Circumstance + Goals + Strategy + Technology + Tactic

Digital Organizations: The good and the bad – input welcome!

I’m prepping for a strategy session this weekend in DC to develop a strategy for a new organization that focuses on analyzing the deeper issues around digital activism.  As such, we’ll be discussing at length the structure of the organization: a digital organization.

For the most part, none of us are in the same city at [...]

Digital Activism Decoded available on pre-order at Amazon!

Our book, Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, will be published on 10 April 2010 and is now available on pre-order.

“Digital activism and its dynamics, practices misconceptions and possible futures are presented together for the first time.”

HubSpot TV and discussion on Digital Activism, Social Media and Girls in Tech

I was on the 6 November episode of HubSpot TV discussing social media news, DigiActive/digital activism and Girls in Tech.

You can get the full show notes on the HubSpot Blog.

DigiActive Policy Memo to the US Helsinki Commission

Policy Memo for the US Helsinki Commission: In the digital age, where a “good” is a string of code that can be delivered anywhere in the world with the click of a mouse, even today’s smart sanctions are not smart enough. By preventing access to blogging platforms, social networks, and other types of new media, current embargo policies harm the very activists who are furthering our common goals of democracy promotion, while leaving authoritarian governments free to spread propaganda through a range of state-controlled media outlets.

We’ve got a title for our digital activism book

Our book has a title.

Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change

Small update, but it’s exciting nonetheless!

New search capabilities for Twitter: Hope it’s not all business as usual!

At long last, Twitter is allowing for (at least a little) location-aware

capabilities.

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“Developers will be able to access this new geolocation feature early which means it will most likely be available on your app of choice before it is available on Twitter’s Web site. Later, we will add it to our mobile Web [...]

Digital Activism Book: Chapter Abstract

I’m in the last stages of writing a chapter for a book on Digital Activism that’s being written by a really great group of colleagues, such as Patrick Meier, Gaurav Mishra, Mary Joyce, and Tim Hwang (among others).  I thought I’d lay out my outline for now, as I’m working through it.

Please let me know [...]

DigiActive: R@D Digital Activism Survey

Our goal in creating this survey was to collect the first international demographic data on the new group we call “digital activists”: people who use digital technology as part of grassroots campaigns for social and political change.

DigiActive Post: Iranian elections, Information Passing and Twitter

Iranian elections, Twitter, and information flow: We are all becoming a larger part of the information dissemination mechanisms that were once reserved for formal media channels. DigiActive has reported many instances of citizen journalism, on-the-ground reporting and information gathering, but now we’re talking about the addition of a process of broader dissemination.