Digital Activism

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 ETHICAL 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 THEMES (w/web Examples)FOR DISCUSSION IN THE SOCIAL CHANGE CLASSROOM

1. CLASS
2. RACE
3. GENDER
4. IMMIGRATION
5. SOCIAL NETWORKING/FRIENDSHIP

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrlSkU0TFLs This hilarious video explores the ways we take friendship for granted on FaceBook. Question to ask the group: Friendship is one way to use FaceBook, but how can the tool be used for larger social change? The class should explore and find specific case studies.

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: http://www.demologue.com -
2. Also: The Open-Net Initiative http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/opennet

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.

1. 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".

Questions

1. Does a ubiquitous web enable people to plug in to their world (or their city)?
2. Could it?
3. How?
4. Could classrooms contribute to the growing knowledge banks of social change movements?