by Mary Joyce (updated) Liberation technology is “any form of information and communication technology that can expand political, social, and economic freedom”.  It is the focus of a new program at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and the subject of an excellent article by Larry Diamond in the July issue [...]

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.  [...]

A quick follow up to my post of last week about digital activism as a new form of activism….. my napkin drawings were unfortunately not as legible as I would have liked (some tell me there’s a nifty napkin drawing tool online that I can use….).  I made new copies, hopefully they’re a little better: [...]

by Mary Joyce On Thursday, President Obama gave a speech to a group of bank executives who collectively make up one of the world’s most powerful economic groups. He was there to scold them for the “failure of responsibility” that precipitated the financial crisis. That day was also Earth Day. Though scarcely recognized, it is [...]

In a post a few weeks ago, Mary started us down the path of “Ok, all this chatter about digital this and activism that.  What constitutes digital activism anyway?”  Obviously we’ve got to start thinking about this, or else MAP has no reason to exist, so let’s keep at it.  Mary said, very rightly so: [...]

by: David Faris Mary has, I think, gotten us off to a great start thinking about the substance of digital activism. Allow me to offer some thinking about this question, that uses examples or anecdotes to illustrate some theoretical thinking about what might be new about activism using digital technology, rather than reasoning directly from [...]

Alaa Abd El Fattah is an extremely smart blogger, developer, and activist.  He is one of my go-to people for original and astute insights into digital activism and, when I asked him for feedback on a forthcoming anthology on digital activism I am working on (shameless plug), he did not disappoint: Thought it was a [...]