Category Archives: News
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Under the Hood of Global Climate Action December 27, 2009
As the dust settles on the Copenhagen Summit, it has become increasingly clear that we are witnessing the birth of a new form of advocacy, where digital tools are enabling citizens organisations to act collectively across borders, respond rapidly and empower their supporters to take the lead in delivering content where its needed. This Article looks under the hood of global climate advocacy and uncovers some of the innovative digital tools which are supporting mass mobilisation and advocacy at the Cop15 summit.
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Autism Twitts December 22, 2009
“When Shelby was two years old, I used to cry at night and think to myself, ‘Shelby will never be able to speak.’ All I wanted was to hear was her reply when I said, ‘I love you Shelby.’ All I wanted to hear was ‘I love you too, Mom,’” writes Jessica Nolde. For mothers [...]
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Bringing Web Interaction to Paper December 14, 2009
In a decade where newspapers are migrating from the paper to the web, El Universal —the oldest newspaper in Venezuela—decided to bring the interactivity of the web to its print readers. In July of 2007, El Universal launched Doblevía, a section in which all the content, including photos, is provided and written by its readers. [...]
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MTV Staying Alive: Innovative Campaign Approaches December 14, 2009
Back in 1981, MTV launched a platform for popular culture dissemination that had previously never been explored. A “VJ” and providing a video-based platform for bands and musicians was an entirely new style of broadcast programming that united people with their musical interests on television. In the near 30 years MTV has been in operation, [...]
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Reporte Virtual: Sharing Content and Realities December 14, 2009
“Latin America has a long tradition of monopolies and cronyism in the media and independent spaces are hard to find, even today,” says Daniel Eilemberg, one of the directors of Reporte Virtual, a new documentary reportage digital platform that aims to offer a fresh look at the political, economic and social situation of this region. [...]
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Media Org Gives Underserved Youth a Voice December 14, 2009
Project Set is a nonprofit media arts organization that reaches underserved youth in New York City through media literacy training programs, mentorships and leadership seminars. Founded in 2006 by Alisha Cowan-Vieira, Project Set’s vivacious Executive Director, the organization educates young people on the media industry and encourages civic engagement. “I really believe it’s important for [...]
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Mapping to Save Appalachian Mountains December 14, 2009
Last week Lorelei Scarbro, a community leader in Rock Creek, West Virginia, took global leaders in Copenhagen on a virtual tour of Coal River Mountain, where the onslaught of mountaintop coal mine blasting has recently begun. Through video and mapping technology, Ms. Scarbro connected the local struggle of Appalachian communities [...]
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New Media Links Up Gays in China December 14, 2009
The Comrades In Action (or CIA) is a loose structured, low-entry organization based in Beijing, China. It is a very special organization, in the sense that it is an entirely invisible body, with no headquarter, no offices, no leaders, and all its members scattered on the Internet. In fact, it is also an underground organization, [...]
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COLORS: Keeping Print Media Alive by Going Online December 13, 2009
“Colors is a magazine about the rest of the world and Colorslab allows us to turn it into a magazine by the rest of the world.”
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Twitter Tapping (NY Times) December 13, 2009
Interesting… see: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/opinion/13sun2.html?_r=1
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Graduate Association Employs New Social Media Technologies to Broadcast Message, Raise Funds December 13, 2009
The Association of Graduates for the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York is a non-profit organization that has recently forayed into new social media platforms in an effort to increase its global outreach and fund-raising opportunities.
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Twitter! So Far So Good December 12, 2009
The world-renowned new media service products from the U.S have been battling it out in Korea. In fact, Second Life, a free 3D virtual world developed by Linden Lab where users can socialize and connect through the Internet, was withdrawn from Korea market; Barunson Games, which has been in charge of serving Second Life in [...]
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Chinese Peasants’ Version of Facebook December 11, 2009
With the help of the Internet technology, person-to-person (P2P) microfinance is changing the way that people connect cross the borders. “WOKAI” is a non-profit organization founded in 2007, with the mission of lifting rural Chinese residents out of poverty by means of online microfinance. Inherited from a popular website Kiva.org, Wokai.org takes the Internet as [...]
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Organizing 2.0 Conference Dec. 5th December 1, 2009
I thought some of you might be interested in this conference I’m attending this Saturday, December 5th. Organizing 2.0 is a grassroots led conference of social justice organizers primarily from labor and the community organizing world. Participants range from those new to online organizing as well as experienced professionals. Organizing 2.0 • NYC: Training and Strategy Conference for [...]
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Can a single website move you to take action? November 22, 2009
Causecast.org is an online portal that attempts to join media, philanthropy, social networking, entertainment, and education to move people into action around various social causes. The online community connects users to other users, charities, NGOs, leaders, and brands that interest and inspire people through video, messaging, and various content sharing opportunities. The organization was founded [...]
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Virtual Jihad: Iranian regime fights its citizens online November 16, 2009
While Iran’s post-election political upheaval is taking place on the streets, the government pays special attentions to the online activities and exercises an expanded control over cyberspace. Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA reported on Friday Nov 14, that Ismael Muqadam—the commander of the Islamic Republic security Forces—introduced a new police division for ‘exchange information space’. [...]
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The Unsustainable Networking of Guang’ai Charity School: An Epitome of Private Charities in China November 16, 2009
One early morning last week, I was woken up by an international phone call from China – my home country. Lin Chi, a former colleague of mine, eagerly asked me as soon as he heard my voice: “Hey Manli, sorry to wake you up, but do you happen to know anyone here in Beijing who [...]
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Liberal bloggers boycott the DNC November 16, 2009
A week ago, John Aravosis and Joe Sudbay, editors of liberal AMERICAblog.com, launched a temporary boycott to stop contributions to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) until President Barack Obama’s administration signs legislation enacting Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and repealing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). “With this boycott—called [...]
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For One Community Organizing Initiative, Spam Works November 16, 2009
The sort of “spam” that Angela Ongoco fills her friends’ inboxes with begins like this: Hi Guys! As you know, I am working on a community development initiative in one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the world. The operative term here is diverse, which is the reason for why I email you. I was [...]
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Mexican protesters go digital: the #internetnecesario experience November 16, 2009
Social networks have become the new public spaces for debate and accountability It all started in a tweet. After Mexican President Felipe Calderón announced his tax package proposal for 2010 last month, which among other things suggested taxing telecommunications with a 4 percent tax for considering them “a luxury,” Alejandro Pisanty, a professor of UNAM [...]
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A Small Innovation in Korean Music Industry November 16, 2009
Epik High, the Korean hip-hop group, established its own label called Map the Soul and opened its official website (http://www.mapthesoul.com) on March 18, 2009. The group distributed this news to various Korean media, writing, “The cost of an album rises, regardless of the artists’ intention, when the album is produced and sold traditionally. The price [...]
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To Blog or Not to Blog: Is Blogging Inducing Anxiety in Academia? November 16, 2009
With the Internet containing more and more of our personal information, we have inevitably become more concerned about those details spilling out to the public, and by “public” we really mean potential employers. This is the obvious worry when it comes to forums like facebook and google searches. But then [...]
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Games, Seriously. November 16, 2009
Apathy means? Indifference. Accordant means? Agreeing. Periphery means? Fringe. Three successful answer choices into Free Rice, an online word game developed by the UN World Food Program and Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and I have acquired 30 grains of rice in my virtual bowl, which will be donated to feed the world’s [...]
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Youth and Anonymity on the Web November 16, 2009
New media tools are now often promoted as innovative ways to engage with youth and encourage kids to share their stories. While video and new technology may be used to illicit more honest responses, there is a potential cost when you consider the issues of anonymity and protecting those children whose interviews and videos cannot just be uploaded to the internet and left there available to the world. A crucial component of using new media tools to work with youth requires an acknowledgment and cautiousness regarding boundaries of anonymity.
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NGOs recruit bloggers to help change the world November 15, 2009
The online revolution is transforming NGO advocacy at major international summits. Learn about a new project which is harnessing the power of blogging to help build a fairer more just world.
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Michael Cervieri