The Meta-Activism Project is putting together an open data set of digital activism cases from around the world called the Global Digital Activism Data Set (GDADS).  In order to collect these case studies we have created an online submission form which allows anyone to submit a case by providing 5 pieces of information: 1.  Title [...]

We at the Meta-Activism Project are proud to announce the launch of our first major project: the Global Digital Activism Data Set (GDADS).  The data set will turn qualitative case studies of digital activism around the world into a non-proprietary quantitative machine-readable research tool.  It is an open project, created by volunteers and available to [...]

by Mary Joyce Most digital activism campaigns use apps and devices not explicitly designed for activism: Twitter, Facebook, email, blogs, SMS.  There are a few applications designed for activists, like the secure email system RiseUp.net, the social network Crabgrass (also a RiseUp project), the database application Martus, and SMS encryption application Guardian.  That these applications [...]

Our final adviser, Clay Shirky, needs no introduction, but we’ll do so anyway.   Clay has done more than any other public intellectual to explain the social and political effects of digital technology and to reveal its transformative possibilities.  He is an influential author, teacher, and speaker, who has published Here Comes Everybody (2008) and Cognitive [...]

The next member of our Board of Advisers is Hardy Merriman (http://hardymerriman.com), a leading scholar and trainer in the field of nonviolent civic action.  He has edited or co-authored some of the seminal works in the field, such as Waging Nonviolent Struggle (2005) and CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle (2007).  Hardy [...]