We’ve just started to build our Board of Advisers and over the next few days we’ll be introducing the first members to you. We begin with Esra’a Al Shafei,one of the most prolific digital activists working today. Esra’a, who is based in Bahrain, is the founder of Mideast Youth, an all-volunteer organization that produces slick [...]

by Mary Joyce Earlier this week, the site Wikileaks and a handful of newspapers around the world published 90,000 American military  logs on the conduct of the war in Afghanistan. For some historical perspective, here are a few comparisons between the leak of the Afghan reports and the leak of the Pentagon Papers in 1971, [...]

It seems that there are ever more people coming around to the reality that the piecemeal approach to digital activism isn’t working and that we need to begin more rigorous and comprehensive analysis. One of these people is Lucy Bernholz: founder of Blueprint Research + Design for Philanthropy, blogger at Philanthropy 2173, and fellow at [...]

Video of the Digital Activism Decoded book launch and discussion last week, featuring authors Brannon Cullum, Dave Karpf, Mary Joyce, and Dan Schultz.  Thanks to Not An Alternative for hosting the event and making the video.

by Mary Joyce Launched this past January in a speech by Secretary Clinton,  “21st century statecraft” attempts to push American diplomacy into the digital age.  Yet, as revealed in a recent article in the New York Times magazine, there seems to be a significant gap between what the proponents of 21st century statecraft believe and [...]

Video of last week’s panel discussion at the New America Foundation

This week’s New York Times magazine features an article on ROFLCon, the conference of Internet awesomeness founded by Tim Hwang, “a clean-cut 23-year-old go-getter from New Jersey,” pictured at left.  You have read about Tim before on this blog because he wrote a chapter in Digital Activism Decoded entitled “Digital Changes Activism: The Web Ecology [...]

Last night’s panel at the New America Foundation in Washington went really well.  The panel was an excellent mix of perspectives from the executive and legislative arms of the federal government with on-the-ground experience Skyped in from Kenya.    The video of the event is available online if you missed the original. Next week there will [...]

by Mary Joyce Likes many of my peers, I am currently reading  “CS by CS” (Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky).  The book does an excellent job of clarifying, synthesizing, and highlighting some of the best new thought on digital technology and society in recent years, including ideas from Shirky’s earlier book, Here Comes Everybody. Shirky [...]

Now that Digital Activism Decoded is officially on sale, we are proud to announce our first book-related event, which will occur next Thursday the 15th at 5:30pm at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC. The event will critique the current stalemate in digital activism discourse and discuss ways to move the field forward. From [...]