Digital Activism & Power: How to Change the World

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How Digital Activism Can Change the World Mary Joyce :: @Palomar5 :: October, 2009

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Presentation for Palomar5 on how digital activism can change global power dynamics.

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HowDigital Activism

Can Change the World

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What isDigital Activism?

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Digital Activismgrassroots activists using digital technologies for social and political change campaigns

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international rallies organized through Facebook

Blogs and offline citizen

journalists collect quake victim names

ChinaChina

ColombiaColombia

PakistanPakistan

live SMS updates fromprotest march

data and targeting

USAUSA

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PowerMary Joyce :: @Palomar5 :: October, 2009

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Power+ Digital Technology

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Do it!

TraditionalPower

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DigitalPower

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BroadcastPowerDo it!

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BroadcastPowerDo it! Why?

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BroadcastPowerDo it! Why?

No!

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DigitalPower = PeerPower

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NetworkPowerDo it!

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Do it!

NetworkPower

Cool!

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Do it!

NetworkPower

Cool!

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Do it!Do it!

PowerClashTraditionalPower + PeerPower

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PowerExclusionCurrently most digital activists are from the global middle class.

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MyQuestions

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How do you scale the infrastructure and practices of

digital activism beyond the elite?

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How do you make sustainable digital institutions to change

the global power structure?

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