We’re happy to announce that our book, Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, is available on Amazon.com.  We’ve been giving you chapter excerpts for two months, and we hope you’ve enjoyed them. Now it’s time to enjoy the full content!

A theory of change for how digital activism could change the global politics of power.

by Mary Joyce Famed sociologist Jürgen Habermas likes to do civic participation with the lights on. According to his theory of the public sphere, societies benefit from having a space where citizens can “discuss matters of mutual interest and, where possible, to reach a common judgment”. The classic analog example of a public sphere is [...]

Challenging advocacy groups to use the networking features of the Internet not only to connect with allied organizations and supporters but also to the corporate and political “targets” whose behavior they wish to change

Reframing digital activism more humbly as simply a “practical prosthetic” on pre-digital campaigning practices.

Simon contrasts the utopian vision of the Internet in the 1990’s to its fraught present.

We’d like to thank the organization DoGood Headquarters for their help promoting Digital Activism Decoded pro-bono on their browser network.  They created some great original promotional designs for the campaign, including the image at left and the banner on our home page. DoGood in an Ottawa-based company that has created a browser plug-in that replaces [...]

NOTE: We’ve posted 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 month we’ll be posting more brief excerpts from all the chapters in the book. To learn more, visit our book page. Today’s excerpt is the [...]

by Mary Joyce In many universities, technology conferences, and blogs there is now an active debate about the role of digital technologies in the global fight for human rights, democracy, and social justice. A few people are strongly positive, a few are unflinchingly negative, but most are cautiously optimistic. Still, the question is debated: Can [...]

NOTE: We’ve posted 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 month we’ll be posting more brief excerpts from all the chapters in the book. To learn more, visit our book page. Today’s excerpt, by Steven [...]