Activism and New Media: Introduction
- 1. How can activists and NGOs benefit from new media? By Evgeny Morozov presented at “New Media Essentials” summer school organized by Transitions Online Prague, July 12/2007
- 2. How can activists benefit from new media? Part 1 1. Improve access/quality of information 2. Attract public attention to a particular problem 3. Facilitate gathering and/or analyzing data with the help of volunteers (crowdsourcing) 4. Establish direct contact with politicians/constituencies
- 3. How can activists benefit from new media? Part 2 5. Improve outreach/attract new members 6. Mobilize the movement and help with logistics 7. Create new and creative ways for fund-raising and collective action 8. Publish and exchange info with other NGOs and activists
- 4. 1. Improve access/quality of information Examples: OpenCongress CongressPedia Интерактивная система народного контроля TheyWorkForYou.com Witness/GV Witness ChicagoCrime Real Costs
- 17. 2. Attract public attention to a particular problem Examples: Wikileaks OpenSecrets Maplight.org Congressional Family Business Earmarks/Sunlight Unfluence
- 27. 3. Facilitate gathering and/or analyzing data with the help of volunteers (crowdsourcing) Examples: PorkBusters.org/earmarks TPM Muckraker/attorneys What’s Mich McConnel hiding? dKospedia Offthebus.net Congressional web-site oversight Eyes on Darfur
- 39. 4. Establish direct contact with politicians/constituencies Examples: E-petitions/UK government HearFromYourMp.com Politicopia PrezVid/Choose08 on YouTube TechPresident
- 49. PREZVID
- 52. 5. Improve outreach/attract new members Examples: Treehugger.com WorldChanging Eyes on Darfur Barack Obama’s web-site
- 57. 6. Mobilize the movement and help with logistics Примеры: Meetup Upcoming Eventful MySpace campaigns
- 71. 7. Create new and creative ways for fund-raising and collective action Examples: PledgeBank Fixmystreet Kivo Dotherightthing Freepledge Webgazeta.org
- 78. 8. Publish and exchange info with other NGOs and activists Examples: Swivel Gapminder Connotea That academic youtube?
- 85. Страны, где доступ к YouTube запрещен или ограничен
- 86. disclaimer: I've done my best to attribute slides, graphs and screenshots used in this presentation. Nobody is perfect, and some of them may have slipped in unclaimed – apologies to the original right holders. Let's hope that my frivolous use of your graphs or tables falls under fair use ;-)