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Comment on It’s Not Slacktivism if it Changes Culture by Avatar Activism | Technology In Activism

Avatar Activism | Technology In Activism — Mon, 06 May 2013 17:51:51 +0000

[...] M. (2013) It’s Not Slacktivism if it Changes Culture, [online]28th March 2013. Available at: http://www.meta-activism.org/2013/03/its-not-slacktivism-if-it-changes-culture/ (accessed 6th May [...]

Comment on Digital Activism 101: The 6 Activist Functions of Technology by Marilou

Marilou — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:52:46 +0000

I signed up for your program last week but just got a card right now.
It creeped me out the program has my DOB on file and tied to this
system, which I noticed nowadays when finishing the enrollment.
I think this plan is going to be similar to all the other rewards programs you just have to use them in a way that makes sense.
They may be just rolling the program out, so I am confident they
may make some adjustments going forward. I store there so very little these days anyway CVS
is substantially less complicated and mainly hassle-free
so I go there.

Comment on Arab Spring: What Did We Learn About Tech and Revolution? by The Internet Spring: Identity in Communities and Networks | Communities & Social Networks

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:19:12 +0000

[...] Meta Activism Blog. (November 8, 2011). [Web log post]. Arab Spring: What did we learn about tech and revolution?Retrieved from http://www.meta-activism.org/2011/11/arab-spring-what-did-we-learn-about-tech-and-revolution/ [...]

Comment on Civil Resistance 2.0: A New Database of Methods by Paul Roden

Paul Roden — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:35:03 +0000

I attended the Webinar two years ago I guess now. And I was wondering if there was any exchange between George Lakey’s Global Nonviolence Database and your project. It seems that there could be some overlap and collaboration here in terms of data and of strategies/software/technique/delivery etc.

Thanks,

Paul Roden
Yardley, PA

P.S. I was at Swarthmore College yesterday, but no one was at the Global Nonviolence Database offices.

Comment on How Social Media Helped a Nation Frame a Tragedy by Social Media Silence,Tragedy and @GuyKawasaki - Birds on the Blog

Social Media Silence,Tragedy and @GuyKawasaki - Birds on the Blog — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:06:54 +0000

[...] How Social Media Helped a Nation Frame a Tragedy [...]

Comment on Beyond Slacktivism: A Kony 2012 Post-Mortem by References | Interactive Marketing Techniques

References | Interactive Marketing Techniques — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:43:48 +0000

[...] (2012) Beyond Slacktivism: A Kony 2012 Post-Mortem | Meta-Activism Blog. [Online] Available at: http://www.meta-activism.org/2012/05/beyond-slacktivism-a-kony-2012-post-mortem/. [Accessed 7th April [...]

Comment on It’s Not Slacktivism if it Changes Culture by 2.7M on Facebook take part in visual protest | Hill+Knowlton Canada

2.7M on Facebook take part in visual protest | Hill+Knowlton Canada — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:45:06 +0000

[...] businesses, senators and members of congress on a significant social issue. As Mary Joyce’s Meta-Activism Blog points out in the title of a post on the issue: “It’s Not Slacktivism if it Changes [...]

Comment on Evgeny Morozov and the Rhetoric of Contempt by Stan Wiechers

Stan Wiechers — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:48:47 +0000

This guy is neither smart or fun. He actually lacks the intelectual capacity to weave whats happening into a larger concept because he is just doing the easy part, making fun people. Neither smart or fun.

Comment on Evgeny Morozov and the Rhetoric of Contempt by Unbelievable

Unbelievable — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:13:10 +0000

it is really something to accuse Morozov of bad faith because he has a nominal profit interest in his own success (as everyone does), but then fail to apply that analysis to those he criticizes. His whole point is that a giant industry has developed that continually sells us things that it claims are for our own good, but actually aren’t, and that treats US with a huge amount of contempt. I see contempt oozing off the pages of those Morozov attacks, with their talk of “incumbent industries” and “reality is broken” and so much else: they love so little of our world and know that they know better than we do. They have enormous amounts of capital on their side; Morozov has (arguably) whatever income he makes from his books. Do you not see how Zuckerberg, Lessig, O’Reilly, Shirky, McGonigal and many others are getting rich beyond belief–and making their clients even richer, depending on the individual–based on the snake oil they sell to a largely-unwitting public, and that this is a kind of deep, structural contempt far beyond whatever you think is rudeness? And that this profit motive exceeds by a factor of thousands whatever book sales Morozov might garner for himself? And is wanting to sell books something it’s fair to criticize ANY author for? It’s inherently true of every author. If it were true, we could disqualify what every author writes, and no opinion would be credible.

Two points of correction: 1) Morozov often engages with people at all levels on his Twitter feed, and often engages thoughtful questions very respectfully; 2) your assertion about the subject of The Net Delusion and the success of the Arab Spring are very much off-base. The point of The Net Delusion is that communications technologies are useful to oppressive regimes–it does *not* say they aren’t useful to others. “Arab Spring” is too vague a phrase to mean much here, but depending on how one understands it, the role of particular communications technologies in “it”–and even more troublesome, the question of what “it” is (for example, in Egypt, where Mubarek was cast out of office, only to bring in a regime potentially no less repressive)–are by no means settled in the research literature, and there is a lot of compelling research that casts the emphasis on communications technologies in these events as exactly the kind of commercialized huckersterism (“our cool Silicon Valley product Twitter saved your middle eastern country!”) that is incredibly worrisome. There is even some cogent work by “digital activists” that come to this conclusion.

Comment on Slacktivism is like a First Kiss by Slack Audiences on Active Issues | Digital Diary

Slack Audiences on Active Issues | Digital Diary — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:01:53 +0000

[...] “Slativism is like a first kiss, you can’t make a baby by kissing just like you can’t end poverty or elect a president or gain civil rights by joining a Facebook group or tweeting or forwarding an SMS” (Mary Joyce, 2011). [...]