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The Political Power of Social Media | iRevolution - 0 views

  • herefore, attempts to outline their effects on political action are too often reduced to dueling anecdotes
  • two perspectives on the role of social media in non-permissive environments, the instrumentalist versus environmental schools of thought.
  • Throughout the Cold War, the United States invested in a variety of communications tools, including broadcasting the Voice of America radio station, hosting an American pavilion in Moscow  [...], and smuggling Xerox machines behind the Iron Curtain to aid the underground press, or samizdat.”
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  • protests, when effective, are the end of a long process, rather than a replacement for it.
  • t is in this second, social step that political opinions are formed. This is the step in which the Internet in general, and social media in particular, can make a difference.
  • llows people to privately and publicly articulate and debate a welter of conflicting views.
  • one of the main forms of coordination is what the military calls ‘shared awareness,’ the ability of each member of a group to not only understand the situation at hand but also understand that everyone else does, too. Social media increase shared awareness by propagating messages through social networks.
Rem Palpitt

danah boyd's PDF talk :"The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online" #pdf09 - 0 views

  • For decades, we've assumed that inequality in relation to technology has everything to do with "access" and that if we fix the access problem, all will be fine. This is the grand narrative of concepts like the "digital divide." Yet, increasingly, we're seeing people with similar levels of access engage in fundamentally different ways. And we're seeing a social media landscape where participation "choice" leads to a digital reproduction of social divisions. This is most salient in the States which is intentionally the focus of my talk here today.
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    For decades, we've assumed that inequality in relation to technology has everything to do with "access" and that if we fix the access problem, all will be fine. This is the grand narrative of concepts like the "digital divide." Yet, increasingly, we're seeing people with similar levels of access engage in fundamentally different ways. And we're seeing a social media landscape where participation "choice" leads to a digital reproduction of social divisions. This is most salient in the States which is intentionally the focus of my talk here today.
Rem Palpitt

MediaShift . Local Politicians Use Social Media to Connect with Voters - 1 views

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    Smith's community isn't the only smaller city or town to find itself suffering form a lack of local press. While the New York City mayoral election attracts interest from the New York Times, elsewhere the media landscape has changed drastically, thanks to the shuttering of smaller newspapers that were traditionally the source of local political coverage. In some places, social media is being used to try and replace some of what has been lost in terms of professional reporting.
stan mag

Tunisia, Twitter, Aristotle, Social Media and Final and Efficient Causes | technosociology - 0 views

  • What Ethan is saying in his piece is that social media facilitated the events in ways that were crucial (material cause), but the revolution was made by the people of Tunisia at great human cost (the efficient cause) and it was aimed at overthrowing to corruption, unemployment and tyranny (the final cause).
  • I find it hard to believe that the ability to disseminate news, videos, tidbits, information, links, outside messages that easily, transparently and without censorship reached one in five persons (and thus their immediate social networks) within a country that otherwise suffered from heavy censorship was without a significant impact.
  • Social media helps strengthen communities as it is the antidote to isolating technologies (like suburbs and like televison)
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  • Social media seems to have been key allowing the expatriate and exiled community to mobilize and act as key links between rest of the Arab sphere
  • yes, the ability to disseminate information is not a sufficient cause for success, but it is surely a necessary one
stan mag

From Innovation to Revolution | Foreign Affairs - 0 views

  • he has to convince readers that in the absence of social media, those uprisings would not have been possible.
  • Do social media allow insurgents to adopt new strategies? And have those strategies ever been crucial? Here, the historical record of the last decade is unambiguous: yes, and yes.
  • these changes do not allow otherwise uncommitted groups to take effective political action. They do, however, allow committed groups to play by new rules.
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  • the power of social media to synchronize the behavior of groups quickly, cheaply, and publicly, in ways that were unavailable as recently as a decade ago.
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    dialogue entre Malcolm Gladwell et Clay Shirky dans foreign affairs: "do social media make protests possible?"
Arnault Coulet

#140con: Police test Twitter strategy | Media | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • #140con: Police test Twitter strategy Two police officers explain why it is important to engage with social media and what their plans are
  • "We started because we struggled to engage with young people," said Payne. "We thought Twitter, YouTube and social media, that was where they were talking. So 18 months ago we had no presence anywhere at all. But then we saw a mobile video of a murder – and none of my officers could access the social networks. In the meantime we totally unblocked the net, any officer can now go online. And let me tell you, we had tremendous success finding criminals with the help of social media."
stan mag

23 Examples of Good Social Media in the Public Sector - 0 views

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    23 Examples of Good Social Media in the Public Sector
stan mag

Social Media: The New Battleground for Politics - 0 views

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    I sat down with both the GOP and the Democratic social media team leads to learn more about their efforts for the upcoming election.
stan mag

Politicians, Campaigns Have No Idea How to Go Viral | Fast Company - 0 views

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    ""The big takeaway point is you don't [reach the middle] with social media--I've yet to see any evidence that social media is going persuade truly persuadable voters,""
stan mag

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

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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. "
Rem Palpitt

Politique et web social : je t'aime, moi non plus - 2 views

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    Le réseau social est-il une bête noire pour la classe politique ? Loin de profiter du filon, les partis exposent contre leur gré les limites du genre.
Rem Palpitt

In Social Media Battle, Republicans Catch Up in Time for 2012 - 0 views

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    "We will use social media and the latest technology available to fuel the energy and commitment of folks on the ground, community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood, house to house, all around the country," said Katie Hogan, a spokeswoman for Mr. Obama's re-election campaign
Rem Palpitt

Social Media: The New Battleground for Politics - 0 views

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    With new media at hand, elections become a time for innovation, and online engagement can lead to enormous influence
stan mag

How Social Media Can Effect Real Social and Governmental Change - 0 views

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    par le fondateur de Craigslist
stan mag

Who Organized Tunisia's Revolution? | techPresident - 0 views

  • Communications tools don't organize social movements. Organizers and organizations do. Media helps, but that is all.
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    Communications tools don't organize social movements. Organizers and organizations do. Media helps, but that is all.
stan mag

How Social Media Falls Short in the Organization of Anti-­Authoritarian Resi... - 0 views

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    Breaking the Weakest Link: An Analysis of How Social Media Falls Short in the Organization of Anti-­Authoritarian Resistance
Rem Palpitt

Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics (Twitter Vote Report) - 0 views

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    Since early 2008, American University's Center for Social Media has been producing a series of field reports that profile innovative media for public knowledge and action. Published as part of the Center's Ford Foundation-supported Future of Public Media project (www.futureofpublicmedia.net), these case studies are designed to explore how publics form around participatory and multiplatform media projects. In this report, Nina Keim and Jessica Clark examine two linked projects related to the 2008 presidential election: Twitter Vote Report (TVR) and Inauguration Report '09 (IR09).
Arnault Coulet

Indiscrets: L'UMP lance son réseau social sur Internet - 0 views

  • Ce réseau social, "ouvert à tous, et pas seulement aux adhérents", viendra s'ajouter au site officiel du parti présidentiel "entièrement rénové", ont précisé des sources UMP
Arnault Coulet

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

  • 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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  • 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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stan mag

Iran's Twitter Revolution? Maybe Not Yet - BusinessWeek - 0 views

  • "Social media is not at all a prime mover of what is happening on the ground," says Ethan Zuckerman, a senior researcher at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
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    "Social media is not at all a prime mover of what is happening on the ground," says Ethan Zuckerman, a senior researcher at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
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