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SXSW: How to Spark a Movement in the 21st Century#sxsw #sparkmovements

Panel: How to Spark a Movement in the 21st Century

Speaker: Scott Heiferman

Description: Technology connects us to each other as never before, making it easier to harness our collective power. Obama’s election and post-election Iran barely scratch the surface of what’s possible when people self-organize. Hear how to embrace this potential, and what it means for [...]

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.

Pop!Tech post: DigiActive and social tools for social change

A write up on digital activism and DigiActive as an organization.

In recent months, there’s been a marked increase in the mentions of how social media tools have been used around the world to enhance social activism either on a small scale, such as campaigning to free locally-jailed individuals, as was the case with “Free Jestina [...]