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TOP 10 GAMES
- The McDonald's Game (http://www.heavygames.com/themcdonaldsgame/showgame.asp)
- PeaceMaker (http://peacemakergame.com/)
- Howard Dean for America Game (http://www.deanforamericagame.com/)
- The Redistricting Game (http://www.redistrictinggame.org/index.php?pg=game)
- 3rd World Farmer (http://www.3rdworldfarmer.com/)
- Balance of the Planet (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115130)
- The Grocer Game (http://www.thegrocerygame.com/)
- Freaky Flakes (http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/cerealbox_flash.html)
- A Force More Powerful
- Super Columbine RPG
- Ayiti
- Hush
- Madrid (http://www.newsgaming.com/games/madrid/)
- September 12th (http://www.newsgaming.com/games/index12.htm)
- Disaffected - a.k.a The Anti-Kinkos Game (http://www.persuasivegames.com/games/game.aspx?game=disaffected)
TOP 10 GAMING GROUPS
- Games for Change
- Global Kids
- Values at Play group
- NewsGaming (www.newsgaming.com/games)
TOP 10 GAME MODS AND INTERVENTIONS
- Velvet Strike (http://www.opensorcery.net/velvet-strike/about.html)
- Dead in Iraq (http://www.unr.edu/art/delappe/DeLappe%20Main%20Page/DeLappe%20Online%20MAIN.html)
- 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
- http://www.digiactive.org
- http://www.frontlinesms.org
- http://www.mobileactive.org
- If you go to "directory," and "projects," you can sort through all kinds of cool projects happening across the world.
- http://www.mideastyouth.com
- http://www.fahamu.org
- http://www.mjaft.org
- http://www.bungesms.com
- http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/
TOP 10 2.0 US POLITICAL SITES/BLOGS
- Personal Democracy forum http://www.personaldemocracy.com
- TechPresident http://www.techpresident.com/
TOP 10 DIGITAL ACTIVISM ACTIONS
- German finger print action http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/hackers-publish.html
- Critical Mass Cell Phone Surveillance http://glassbeadcollective.blip.tv/file/784711/
- Google Bombing: George Bush = Miserable Failure
- 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
- NAS protests racist Fox News http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/338629/fox_news_attacked_by_rapper_blackroots_colbert
- Obama gives speech about Race http://www.youtube.com
TOP 10 DIGI ACTIVIST EVENTS OF 2008
- Blogging while Brown http://bloggingwhilebrown.com/
TOP 10 DIGITAL ACTIVIST CONTACTS
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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?