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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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      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
Arnault Coulet

Interactive Persian blogosphere map | Berkman Center - 0 views

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iran berkman

shared by Arnault Coulet on 12 Jun 09 - Cached
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    mise à jour de la carte du blogistan d'avril
Arnault Coulet

Le retour des communautés | InternetActu.net - 0 views

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communautés villes environnement

shared by Arnault Coulet on 07 Jul 09 - Cached
  • On peut aussi, grâce au net et à l’innovation technologique, contribuer de manière plus politique à l’entretien des espaces verts. La cartographie, comme l’avait souligné plus tôt dans la matinée John Tackarah, peut jouer un rôle important. Ainsi, la publication de deux photos montrant la destruction des forêts urbaines à Washington entre les années 70 et aujourd’hui a suscité suffisamment d’émotion pour entrainer une intense campagne de reforestation. D’autres préféreront devenir des “scientifiques citoyens” et communiquer leurs observations sur l’évolution de leur écologie locale.
  • Au-delà de la réduction de l’impact environnemental, l’objectif, selon Jégou, est de devenir “co-producteur des services dont on bénéficie“, mais aussi de “regénérer du tissu social“… I
  • Ce que François Jégou qualifie de “communautés créatives”, c’est-à-dire des communautés qui “n’attendent pas, (mais) qui inventent, ensemble, pour résoudre les problèmes eux-mêmes“.
Arnault Coulet

Protection sociale et inclusion :: Protection des services publics :: Compara... - 0 views

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parlement européen comparateur votes européeennes

shared by Arnault Coulet on 20 May 09 - Cached
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    Le Groupe des Verts au Parlement européen a développé un nouvel outil internet qui permet de vérifier les votes des Parlementaires européens sur des sujets clefs
Arnault Coulet

MoveOn.org: Democracy in Action - 0 views

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aig game

shared by Arnault Coulet on 26 Mar 09 - Cached
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    Obama a voulu se montrer rassurant alors que l'opinion a été choquée par les primes versées par AIG à ses cadres. Les internautes peuvent ainsi se défouler en jetant des tomates virtuelles sur la façade des locaux de la société, sauvée de la faillite grâce à l'injection de fonds publics.
stan mag

GSA Clears Path for Government Web 2.0 Use - 0 views

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government2.0 net-gouvernance

shared by stan mag on 26 Mar 09 - Cached
  • The flagship initiative in this space is the Open Government Partnership, an admittedly unprecedented multilateral coalition co-chaired by the U.S. and Brazil that was formally made public in July. Current participants — including the U.S. — are expected on Tuesday to release their plans for open government in the next year
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    GSA Clears Path for Government Web 2.0 Use
Arnault Coulet

How China's '50 Cent Army' Could Wreck Web 2.0 (via @hugocousin) #fb - 0 views

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chine

shared by Arnault Coulet on 20 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Chinese President Hu Jintao called on Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members to “assert supremacy over online public opinion
  • Some estimates claim that the 50 Cent Army includes a whopping 300,000 people.
Arnault Coulet

Obama's Facebook "Townhall": What Exactly Was That? | - 0 views

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obama facebook townhall

shared by Arnault Coulet on 21 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • If this was meant to be a public conversation, why take so few questions from the web? Was the point here to give Facebook employees a chance to interact with the president, while we watch? Did it really make sense to have Zuckerberg, the owner of the platform, ask the questions (and, it seems, possibly pick them)? For all those people newly paying attention, you have to wonder whether they were encouraged to come back and do it again. In a bit of bad timing for both the White House and Facebook, this happened to be the day that all over the news were comments of a Facebook staffer suggesting that perhaps they had been allowing "too much, maybe, free speech" in countries not accustomed to the free flow of information we enjoy here in the States.
Arnault Coulet

«OpenCourt» ou la justice 2.0 (via @sirchamallow) - 0 views

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justice usa

shared by Arnault Coulet on 04 May 11 - No Cached
  • La justice américaine se donne à voir sur Internet, avec le projet OpenCourt lancé lundi: des procès sont désormais diffusés en streaming. A cet effet, caméras et micros ont été placés dans le District Court de Quincy (au sud de Boston), ainsi qu'un réseau wi-fi qui permet « aux journalistes et aux blogueurs» présents de transmettre facilement leurs comptes-rendus. Dans ce tribunal fédéral de droit commun de première instance sont jugées des fraudes à la carte de crédit, des attaques à main armée, des affaires de drogue… Le dispositif Web est complété par un compte Twitter, avec des détails sur les procès en cours, et par le site Internet OpenCourt.us, qui propose notamment un glossaire des termes juridiques. Pour ses concepteurs, il s'agit d'un projet « qui a pour but de montrer le travail de la justice au public utilisant la technologie numérique ».
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