by Mary Joyce I just received some advance copies of Digital Activism Decoded and the books look great!  The text will be available for free download here next Tuesday, June 1st, and the paper copies will go on sale on Amazon.com on June 30th.  Click here to pre-order. There are over one million books on [...]

by Mary Joyce This video, a digital honors thesis produced by Carmel Delshad of the University of South Florida, provides a nuanced view of digital activism in the Middle East.  It talks about the importance of political and social factors that contextualize digital activism.  It is optimistic while acknowledging the dangers of censorship and repression.  [...]

NOTE: On June 1st we’ll be posting a free downloadable copy of our new book Digital Activism Decoded and on July 1st the paper version will go on sale at Amazon.com. For the next two months we’ll be posting brief excerpts from all the chapters in the book. To learn more, visit our book page. [...]

by Mary Joyce My friend Sem Devillart of the forecasting firm Popular Operations just sent me an interesting article by a staff member of the RAND Corporation, David Ronfeldt.  Written back in 1996, it is probably one of the first to sketch the political and social implications of the networked society made possible by digital [...]

NOTE: On June 1st we’ll be posting a free downloadable copy of our new book Digital Activism Decoded and on July 1st the paper version will go on sale at Amazon.com. For the next two months we’ll be posting brief excerpts from all the chapters in the book. To learn more, visit our book page. [...]

NOTE: On June 1st we’ll be posting a free downloadable copy of our new book Digital Activism Decoded and on July 1st the paper version will go on sale at Amazon.com. For the next two months we’ll be posting brief excerpts from all the chapters in the book. To learn more, visit our book page. [...]

NOTE: On June 1st we’ll be posting a free downloadable copy of our new book Digital Activism Decoded and on July 1st the paper version will go on sale at Amazon.com. For the next two months we’ll be posting brief excerpts from all the chapters in the book. To learn more, visit our book page. [...]

Today’s excerpt, by Dan Schultz, who will soon begin graduate studies at the MIT Media Lab, is from a chapter entitled “Applications: Picking the Right One in a Transient World,” The chapter offers practical advice for activists on how to choose the applications that will support their digital campaign. …You can easily get caught up [...]

A history of digital activism from the beginning of the ARPANET in 1969.

Explaining the technological infrastructure of digital activism.