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==Some Questions==
==A Question==


# 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 a ubiquitous web enable people to plug in to their world (or their city)?
# Easier to join global actions than local ones in the suburbs?
# Could it?   
# 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?
# How?
# 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 14:24, 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. http://www.digiactive.org
  2. http://www.frontlinesms.org
  3. http://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. http://www.mideastyouth.com
  5. http://www.fahamu.org
  6. http://www.mjaft.org
  7. http://www.bungesms.com
  8. http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/

TOP 10 2.0 US POLITICAL SITES/BLOGS

  1. Personal Democracy forum http://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".


A Question

  1. Does a ubiquitous web enable people to plug in to their world (or their city)?
  2. Could it?
  3. How?
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