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# Does the Internet just make people feel connected to social issues at the cost of real action?  (eg, I've joined the Facebook group, so now I'm done)
# Does the Internet just make people feel connected to social issues at the cost of real action?  (eg, I've joined the Facebook group, so now I'm done)
# Easier to join global actions than local ones in the suburbs?
# Easier to join global actions than local ones in the suburbs?
# What does the rise of connectivity through the web do to those that are not connected?  Are those "undigital" no longer in a position to be activists?
# What does the rise of connectivity through the web do to those that are not connected?  Are those "undigital" no longer in a position to be activists?
# Internet is good for awareness.  How do you move from awareness to action?
# Personal?  Key for action.  Where does this fit in?

Revision as of 13:28, 4 August 2008

TOP 10 GAMES

  1. The McDonald's Game (http://www.heavygames.com/themcdonaldsgame/showgame.asp)
  2. PeaceMaker (http://peacemakergame.com/)
  3. Howard Dean for America Game (http://www.deanforamericagame.com/)
  4. The Redistricting Game (http://www.redistrictinggame.org/index.php?pg=game)
  5. 3rd World Farmer (http://www.3rdworldfarmer.com/)
  6. Balance of the Planet (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115130)
  7. The Grocer Game (http://www.thegrocerygame.com/)
  8. Freaky Flakes (http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/cerealbox_flash.html)
  9. A Force More Powerful
  10. Super Columbine RPG
  11. Ayiti
  12. Hush
  13. Madrid (http://www.newsgaming.com/games/madrid/)
  14. September 12th (http://www.newsgaming.com/games/index12.htm)
  15. Disaffected - a.k.a The Anti-Kinkos Game (http://www.persuasivegames.com/games/game.aspx?game=disaffected)


TOP 10 GAMING GROUPS

  1. Games for Change
  2. Global Kids
  3. Values at Play group
  4. NewsGaming (www.newsgaming.com/games)

TOP 10 GAME MODS AND INTERVENTIONS

  1. Velvet Strike (http://www.opensorcery.net/velvet-strike/about.html)
  2. Dead in Iraq (http://www.unr.edu/art/delappe/DeLappe%20Main%20Page/DeLappe%20Online%20MAIN.html)
  3. 911 Survivor (http://www.selectparks.net/911survivor/911screenshots.html)

TOP 10 GAMING COURSES

Brown University "Code, Software, Serious Games." You can find the blog here (http://codesoftwaregames.blogspot.com/). The instructor, Braxton Soderman, is writing his Dissertation at Brown on these sorts of things.

TOP 10 DIGITAL ACTIVIST SITES

  1. www.digiactive.org
  2. www.frontlinesms.org
  3. www.mobileactive.org
    1. If you go to "directory," and "projects," you can sort through all kinds of cool projects happening across the world.
  4. www.mideastyouth.com
  5. www.fahamu.org
  6. www.mjaft.org
  7. www.bungesms.com
  8. http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/

TOP 10 2.0 US POLITICAL SITES/BLOGS

  1. Personal Democracy forum www.personaldemocracy.com
  2. TechPresident http://www.techpresident.com/

TOP 10 DIGITAL ACTIVISM ACTIONS

  1. German finger print action http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/hackers-publish.html
  2. Critical Mass Cell Phone Surveillance http://glassbeadcollective.blip.tv/file/784711/
  3. Google Bombing: George Bush = Miserable Failure
  4. Teens walk out of high school using text messaging http://publius.cc/2008/05/15/essay-by-clay-shirky/

TOP 10 OFFLINE ACTIVISM ACTIONS of 2008

  1. NAS protests racist Fox News http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/338629/fox_news_attacked_by_rapper_blackroots_colbert
  2. Obama gives speech about Race http://www.youtube.com

TOP 10 DIGI ACTIVIST EVENTS OF 2008

  1. Blogging while Brown http://bloggingwhilebrown.com/

TOP 10 DIGITAL ACTIVIST CONTACTS

  1. Mary Joyce - she is our beloved go-to person for digital activism and ran her own digital activism site a couple years ago: www.demologue.com - You can contact her at: marycjoyce@gmail.com for more info.
  2. Also: The Open-Net Initiative peeps are currently compiling a digital activist map. Our new projects coordinator, Jill York, would be an excellent resource as she has a vast network of knowledge of and contacts with digital activists through her work with Global Voices Online. jilliancyork@gmail.com
  3. Internet & Democracy Project have been about activism. You can check them out here: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/idblog/ They offer links that would be helpful. The posts which are relevant to your research are : "Online Activists Emphasize Offline Activism" - "Camera Phones: Democratizing the Global Media Landscape" - "Electronic Artists Carry on Tradition of Artist-Activism" - and maybe even "Tweets Sparked Over Twitter in Congress".


Some Questions

  1. Does the Internet just make people feel connected to social issues at the cost of real action? (eg, I've joined the Facebook group, so now I'm done)
  2. Easier to join global actions than local ones in the suburbs?
  3. What does the rise of connectivity through the web do to those that are not connected? Are those "undigital" no longer in a position to be activists?
  4. Internet is good for awareness. How do you move from awareness to action?
  5. Personal? Key for action. Where does this fit in?
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