Digital Activism
Berkman Intern Top Ten List
for noting the best online activism/actions of the moment
Potential topics: Games, Mods, Tools, Events, Videos, Tools, Sites, etc.
Current works in progress:
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
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
- www.digiactive.org
- www.frontlinesms.org
- www.mobileactive.org
- If you go to "directory," and "projects," you can sort through all kinds of cool projects happening across the world.
- If you go to "directory," and "projects," you can sort through all kinds of cool projects happening across the world.
- www.mideastyouth.com
- www.fahamu.org
- www.mjaft.org
- www.bungesms.com
- http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/
TOP 10 2.0 US POLITICAL SITES/BLOGS
- Personal Democracy forum 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".