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Arnault Coulet

@digiactive what do you think about @evgenymorozov blog post "From slacktivism to activ... - 0 views

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activism

shared by Arnault Coulet on 05 Sep 09 - Cached
  • I've grown increasingly skeptical of numerous digital activism campaigns that attempt to change the world through Facebook and Twitter.
  • He started a Facebook group, which implied – but never stated so explicitly – that the city authorities were planning to dismantle the fountain, which of course was NEVER the case. He seeded the group to 125 friends who joined in a matter of hours; then it started spreading virally. In the first few days, it immediately went to a 1000 members and then it started growing more aggressively. After 3 days, it began to grow with over 2 new members each minute in the day time. When the group reached 27.500 members, Jørgensen decided to end the experiment. So there you have it: almost 28,000 people joined a cause that didn't really exist!
  • "just like we need stuff to furnish our homes to show who we are, on Facebook we need cultural objects that put together a version of me that I would like to present to the public."
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  • acebook users shape their online identity implicitly rather than explicitly
  • This shopping binge in an online identity supermarket has led to the proliferation of what I call “slacktivism”, where our digital effort make us feel very useful and important but have zero social impact
  • In a perfect world, this shouldn't even be considered a problem: better donate a penny than not to donate at all. The problem, however, is that the granularity of contemporary digital activism provides too many easy way-outs: too many people decide to donate a penny where they may otherwise want to donate a dollar
  • The problem is that most of these campaigns do not have clear goals or agenda items beyond awareness-raising.
  • Asking for money could also undermine one's efforts to engage groups members in more meaningful real-life activities: the fact that they have already donated some money, no matter how little, makes them feel as if they have already done their bit and should be left alone
  • Some grassroots campaigns are beginning to realize it: for example, the web-site of "Free Monem", a 2007 pan-Arab initiative to free an Egyptian blogger from jail carried a sign that said “DON'T DONATE; Take action” and had logos of Visa and MasterCard in a crossed red circle in the background
  • his was a way to show that their campaign needed more than money as well as to shame numerous local and international NGOs that like to raise money to “release bloggers from jail”, without having any meaningful impact on the situation on the ground.
  • Psychologists offer an interesting explanation as to why a million people working together may be less effective than one person working alone. They call this phenomenon “social loafing”.
  • Reading about Ringelmann's experiments, I realized that the same problem plagues much of today's “Facebook” activism:
  • For example, FreeRice, a web-site affiliated with the UN Food Program
  • This is a brilliant approach: millions of people rely on the Internet to study English anyway and most of them wouldn't mind being exposed to online advertising in exchange for a useful service. Both sides benefit, with no high words exchanged. Those who participate in the effort are not driven by helping the world and have a very selfish motivation; yet, they probably generate more good than thousands of people who are “fighting” hunger via Facebook. While this model may not be applicable to every situation, it's by finding practical hybrid models like FreeRice's that we could convert immense and undeniable collective energy of Internet users into tangible social change.
  • on't give people their identity trophies until they have proved their worth
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      Arnault Coulet on 05 Sep 09
       
      clé
  • create diverse, distinctive, and non-trivial tasks; your supporters can do more than just click “send to all” button” all day.
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      Arnault Coulet on 05 Sep 09
       
      second point
stan mag

Digital Activism: An Interview with Mary Joyce - 0 views

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shared by stan mag on 13 Mar 10 - Cached
  • The measuring of impact thus becomes extremely subjective.  Digital activism proponents want to count mobilization as success even when the goal is not achieved, while skeptics and pessimists point out that, by traditional measures, most digital activism campaigns are failures. 
  • The measuring of impact thus becomes extremely subjective.  Digital activism proponents want to count mobilization as success even when the goal is not achieved, while skeptics and pessimists point out that, by traditional measures, most digital activism campaigns are failures.
stan mag

Colombia: networks of dissent and power | openDemocracy - 0 views

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facebook Activism

shared by stan mag on 25 Mar 10 - Cached
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    "The Facebook-sparked protest and 4 February demonstrations in Colombia make an interesting test-case of the burgeoning power of unorthodox media outlets and their potential to rally great numbers of people in a short period of time. The initial spontaneity and synergy are a paradigm example of how technology can spawn transnational political forms; in this the phenomenon both belongs to the past decade of net-based activism and highlights the potential of social networks to make this type of organising even more inventive and sophisticated in the future. At the same time, this particular protest (and this form of mobilisation) exclude the many who do not belong to the technological and transnational elites which they favour. Moreover, by avoiding the classic approaches of civil-society work - including the formation of alliances with NGOs, political parties, human-rights groups, and trade unions - the march organisers disregard traditional forms and institutions of democratic action. In doing so, they privilege a fragmented and highly individualised perspective of reality over one that embodies shared, public action for social improvement. "
stan mag

Book Review: SMS Uprising - Mobile Activism in Africa | DigiActive.org - 0 views

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mobile Activism

shared by stan mag on 25 Mar 10 - Cached
  • stan mag on 25 Mar 10
     
    ""SMS campaigns to promote violence, blogs to challenge mainstream media narratives, and online campaigns to promote awareness of human rights violations.""
stan mag

Essential Readings in Digital Activism - 0 views

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Activism

shared by stan mag on 13 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • stan mag on 13 Jul 11
     
    work in progress. Can you recommend further additions?
Rem Palpitt

Bloomberg Campaign Connects to Facebook - 0 views

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shared by Rem Palpitt on 29 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Rem Palpitt on 29 Jun 09
     
    Facebook Connect could ultimately give political campaigns more viral exposure for their online efforts. Campaign supporters who join Mr. Bloomberg's social network can easily invite their friends to join them in various online activities; if they sign up to attend a political event, that gets transferred back to Facebook too. Users are presented with options to withhold any and all of this information from Facebook if they wish.
stan mag

Twitter Is a Critical Tool in Republican Campaigns - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Twitter

shared by stan mag on 05 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • With 100 million active users, more than 10 times as many as in the 2008 election, Twitter has emerged as a critical tool for political campaigns
  • Not just the press element, but the organizing element and the fund-raising element and the relationship building that all campaigns try to do.”
  • Twitter allowed the team to see what was resonating with both voters and reporters.
Arnault Coulet

Valuable Games » Blog Archive » My.BarackObama.com as Augmented Reality Game - 0 views

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terra defection engagement my.barackobama.com obama games

shared by Arnault Coulet on 02 Oct 09 - Cached
  • what made MyBO revolutionary, and what puts it in the same category as World Without Oil, is that it also asked participants to engage in non-digital, non-virtual activity
  • Perhaps the biggest problem of MyBO as a game was its failure to scale. It was disheartening to log in and see that you were in 266,442nd place
  • But the system would have been far more motivating if your cohort group was more local: all Obama supporters in your state, city, or your MyBO groups.
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  • Some were upset by the change, which demonstrated that the points really did motivate some. Wrote one of the top 500: “GIVE ME MY POINTS BACK!!!! THEY DO NOT BELONG TO YOU!!!!!”
  • Full disclosure: including one I’m now working on a civic engagement game for Fair Trade).
stan mag

Points for Voting: Facebook Places Becomes Part of an Elections Game - 0 views

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shared by stan mag on 28 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Trotter set up the app as an experiment to test whether online friendships could pressure people into being more active and engaged as citizens
  • “Trust-based relationships have become a new form of currency,” he said in an interview
Arnault Coulet

Fan pages for nonprofits and local institutions require care and feeding (via @palpitt) - 1 views

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shared by Arnault Coulet on 18 Dec 09 - Cached
  • The easiest way to characterize the difference between a fan of a consumer business and one of a local institution or a nonprofit is by their degree of desired engagement.
  • The problem is that most local institutions—I’m singling out hospitals here for special attention—and nonprofits don’t do a very good job with their pages. They certainly don’t put as much care and feeding into those pages as their commercial counterparts do.
  • becoming a fan of a Facebook page is motivated by the expectation that the organization will use the page as a vehicle for keeping its fans up to date. Many hospitals, for example, host educational events for the community, but few hospitals take advantage of the “events” tab on fan pages to list those activities.
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  • Populate the Info tab with all the information your fans may want to know about your organization. Take advantage of the Events feature to let your constituents know what’s going on with your institution. Monitor what people are posting to the wall and respond wherever it’s appropriate. Let people know you’re listening and care about what they’re saying. Photos and videos are terrific ways to connect with people, particularly if you’re introducing them to real people they might encounter in their interactions with your organization.
Arnault Coulet

Iran: Chinese cyberactivists support Iranians (via @fondapol) - 0 views

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iran chine e-militantisme activisme

shared by Arnault Coulet on 11 Jan 10 - Cached
  • hey have added their own new hashtag, #CN4Iran, and even built a new site to support the struggle of the Iranian people, titled CN4Iran.org. Global Voices interviewed one of the cyber activists behind this initiative.
  • Our site was created in Dec 28, 2009, hosted by Dreamhost.com (US). Our objective is to support the Iranian people for liberty and democracy, learn from them and spread the experiences to Chinese people.
  • Our target is the Chinese cyber citizen, firstly the Chinese users on twitter.com, and then other Chinese Internet users who read our information. Also, we infrequently have some worldwide readers, and we tell them the reaction in China (by translating some Chinese news into English)
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  • Do you see any similarity between Chinese and Iranian censorship? What about cyber activism? We know that many web sites have been blocked by Iran Regime, which is similar to China. I guess they also have a censor system for keyword filtering, like the Great Firewall (GFW) in China. Such situation is quite common in countries like Iran and China.
stan mag

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shared by stan mag on 13 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Our activist has many pre-digital strategies to draw on: the community organizing model of the trade unionists, the strategic communications model of the broadcast era, the lessons of strategic non-violent conflict developed thirty years ago. All have valuable lessons for our digital activist
  • ost digital activists rely on tactical knowledge that is even more slippery and precarious.
  • Even for the rare activists group that is able to replicate a successful series of tactics, the grounds has often moved beneath them
  • stan mag on 13 Mar 10
     
    "Our activist has many pre-digital strategies to draw on: the community organizing model of the trade unionists, the strategic communications model of the broadcast era, the lessons of strategic non-violent conflict developed thirty years ago. All have valuable lessons for our digital activist"
Arnault Coulet

Mobile Voter Registration Apps May Be Ready for Midterms (via @brainforge) - 0 views

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mobile activism

shared by Arnault Coulet on 13 Apr 10 - No Cached
  • Project Vote, which describes itself as a nonpartisan organization that promotes higher voter registration rates in low-income and minority communities, announced last week that they are working on a mobile-device-friendly voter registration application, according to a press release, that will work on anything from the BlackBerry to the magical iPad.
Arnault Coulet

Green Knowledge Trust, wikipedia militant : Et si le Web 2.0 menait la lutte ... - 0 views

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shared by Arnault Coulet on 13 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Il faut bâtir une « coalition of the willing », une coalition engagée. Plus qu'éteindre la lumière en sortant d'une pièce, prendre des douches et non des bains, c'est désormais sur Internet que l'enjeu climatique se joue. Tim Rayner explique : « La “ Coalition of the willing ” est une tentative de concentration de l'attention du peuple sur la manière dont les nouvelles technologies telles qu'Internet, transforment celui-ci en agent politique armé de pouvoir. »
  • Aujourd'hui, Internet est devenu un espace de collaboration. Tim Rayner rêve d'y créer un « mouvement d'essaim » tel que celui engendré en 2004 par le site SorryEverybody [créé suite à la réélection de George W. Bush à la présidence américaine, ndlr].
  • En travaillant tous ensemble à travers les frontières vers un but commun, les gens vont pouvoir réaliser une nouvelle forme d'identité politique au-delà de la nation. Ceci est l'ultime contribution du Web 2.0 dans la lutte écologique. »
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  • L'objectif de « The Coalition of the Willing » est de regrouper une communauté d'internautes en vue de la création du Green knowledge trust, un site sur le modèle de Wikipédia, et d'une plate-forme innovante que le philosophe appelle un Open innovation Center, dont le prototype a déjà été réalisé.
  • « A cette étape, le film est un manifeste optimiste qui sert à faire réfléchir. Mais une fois que les sites seront en ligne, le film pourra être utilisé comme une publicité. »
Arnault Coulet

Hugo Chávez to Make Terrorist Threats, er, Join Twitter (via @fondapol) - 0 views

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shared by Arnault Coulet on 27 Apr 10 - Cached
  • After getting the short end of the Twitter stick, Venezuela president, Hugo Chávez, called it "terrorism," "a battle trench" and a "current of conspiracy. "The Internet cannot be free!" he proclaimed. Since he has taken six television channels he didn't like off the air and imprisoned reporters, who knew what he would do?
  • "The microblogging site has seen an explosive rise in usage in Venezuela to more than 200,000 active accounts. With growth of over 1,000 percent in 2009, Venezuela now has one of the highest rates per capita of Twitter users in Latin America."
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