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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.""
Arnault Coulet

Mobile Phones Creating New Opportunities for Activists - 0 views

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mobile phone telephone activisme

shared by Arnault Coulet on 17 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Increasingly widespread penetration of mobile phones around the world is creating new opportunities for activists to organize, connect and open windows to their lives.
  • co-founder of MobileActive.org,
  • Mobile phones are much more accessible for people in developing countries where Internet connections may be expensive or nonexistent
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  • It was through these innovations that Kiripi Katembo Siku, an art student from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was able to create a film that portrayed street life in the Congo’s capital, Kinshasa.
  • It was SMS that offered many of the real-time updates found on Twitter and other social networking sites during the recent Iranian and Lebanese elections that captured global attention.
  • In 2005, Greenpeace Argentina,
  • he campaign enrolled more than 4,500 activists to receive text alerts during critical legislative battles and encouraged them to text or call their representatives in a show of support for the zero-waste policy.
  • using solar power for mass texting by mobile phone someday.
  • During President Obama’s June 14 visit to Cairo, Egypt, and his July 11 visit to Ghana, subscribers in places where Internet or television might not be accessible received SMS texts with updates of his speeches. In response, subscribers were able to send in questions for President Obama to answer in a podcast.
Rem Palpitt

Politics goes mobile | Pew Research - 1 views

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mobile politics net-politique net-campagne stats

shared by Rem Palpitt on 23 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Rem Palpitt on 23 Dec 10
     
    More than a quarter of American adults - 26% - used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 mid-term election campaign. In a post-election nationwide survey of adults, the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project found that 82% of adults have cell phones. Of those cell owners, 71% use their phone for texting and 39% use the phone for accessing the internet. With that as context, the Pew Internet survey found that:
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.
Rem Palpitt

How Mobile Apps Are Revolutionizing Elections, Transparency | PBS - 0 views

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mobile-campaign iphone obama

shared by Rem Palpitt on 02 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Rem Palpitt on 02 Mar 10
     
    The importance of social media in politics was made clear by Barack Obama's 2008 presidential run. But there is a new frontier of Web 2.0 technologies that politicians and political groups are slowly starting to embrace: the smartphone app. These apps have the potential to reshape how politicians communicate, raise money and get out the vote.
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