TSP’s Kyle Green recently spoke with Mary Joyce about digital activism. This short podcast would be great in a class on media, transnational activism, or a variety of other topics. Most, if not all, students will be able to connect to the material, making it relevant to their everyday lives and a great addition to a lecture. Here are some questions to accompany the podcast.
- What is digital activism?
- Have you participated in anything that could be considered digital activism recently? Did you consider your participation as “activism” at the time?
- What are the strengths of digital activism? Can you think of any pitfalls?
- As a related post on our sister blog, Cyborgology, points out, the United Nations declared that disconnecting people from the Internet violates their human rights. Do you think access to the Internet should be a human right? Why or why not?
Note that the project’s website also has some tools that could be utilized for the lecture, including a visual summary of their preliminary findings.
Comments 2
Letta Page — March 12, 2013
This is great! I'd also suggest just reading through any number of Cyborgology posts about the digital life, from the gendering of digital dualism discussions (a term itself coined by Cyborgology's Nathan Jurgenson) to how we create nostalgia with our uses of technology. There's so much to be discussed over there (though the fact that it can sometimes be a jargon-y discussion is duly noted).
Kyle Green — March 14, 2013
Thanks for writing this up Hollie! I also think it is a nice contrast to the podcast with Gabriella Coleman who focused more on hackers and anonymous (http://thesocietypages.org/officehours/2013/01/14/gabriella-coleman-on-anonymous/).