The Meta-Activism Project

Let’s Get Empirical!

We’re building a data set of over 1000 digital activism cases from over 100 countries around the world called the Global Digital Activism Data Set (GDADS) and we’re doing it using open research principles.

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Digital Activism Book: Paper Optional

Digital Activism Decoded is a collection of essays that addresses its subject holistically by looking at contexts, practices, and effects. In keeping with our value of open access to knowledge, it is available for free download as well as for purchase in paper form.

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Critical Insights in Real Time

White papers and journal articles can take months to bring to the public, so we rely on our blog to regularly publish key insights on the development of our field. The blog takes a macro view of digital activism by tracking key trends, debates, and ideas.

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Our Open Research Commitment

The Internet has made openness the new default. We conduct our research in recognition of this new reality, which has tremendous benefits for knowledge creation.

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Essential Resources

We’ve got digital activism resources on lockdown. Professor of Political Science David Faris tracked down the essential readings of this new field, including books, journal articles, blog posts, and films. Feel free to browse or suggest resources to add.

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Book

Addressing digital activism holistically from the perspective of contexts, practices, and effects, this collection of essays presents this new field with unprecedented global scope and a balanced perspective that seeks to find common ground between the optimists and pessimists. FREE! Download Paper Version: Available on Amazon.com (purchase) Advance Praise This is excellent work [...]

Resources

Essential Readings in Digital Activism The Meta-Activism project has compiled the following list of recommended readings and media resources for the study and instruction of digital activism at the undergraduate and graduate level. You can follow the title links to purchase the resources or view them for free, depending on the publication options available. Please [...]

Data Set

The Global Digital Activism Data Set (GDADS) will be a coded list of digital activism cases from around the world, created as an open resource to scholars. On this page you can download a free copy of the codebook and case study list and read our FAQ. Also check out infographics of the 1,200+ digital [...]

Open Research

The Prometheus Statement* Our Open Research Commitment Version 0.1 The Meta-Activism Project commits to producing research that complies with the principles below, in which both the research process and research product are open to the public. We also invite the public to engage with, and help us improve, these principles on our wiki at http://meta-activism.wikispaces.com/Prometheus+Statement. [...]

People

We are an organization composed of volunteers from a range of backgrounds. We collaborate internally and with a number of external partners to build connections and create knowledge about digital activism.