Mission

The mission of the Meta-Activism Project (MAP) is to incite critical analysis of how we develop knowledge about digital technology’s effect on activism. Our motivating question is: “How are we creating knowledge about digital activism and how can we do so more effectively?”

In order to achieve this mission we build human and informational infrastructure in the form of networks and researcher tools. The ultimate goal of these activities is to make digital activism a more effective means of achieving a transparent, democratic, and participatory global society.

Projects

The Global Digital Activism Data Set (GDADS)

The goal of this all-volunteer project is to turn qualitative case studies of digital activism from around the world into a non-proprietary quantitative machine-readable data set that will facilitate the work of scholars in this new field.

To read more about the project and how you can get involved visit meta-activism.org/data-set and to download a recent list of the case studies we have collected so far, visit meta-activism.org/case-studies.

Book: Digital Activism Decoded

This anthology of essays is the first book to map the field of digital activism. Beginning with technical infrastructure and the economic, social, and political contexts of digital activism, the book also addresses the types of digital activism practices and effects and the different perceptions of digital activism’s value.

The books is available for free download under a Creative Commons license (download PDF) and for sale on Amazon (purchase page). For more information, including a table of contents, visit meta-activism.org/book.