{"id":1947,"date":"2013-03-12T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T14:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2013-03-12T09:41:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T14:41:45","slug":"digital-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2013\/03\/12\/digital-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by RobotSkirts on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/42252366@N00\/8521967775\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"We just got the pager network up at #SeaSides BBQ\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8225\/8521967775_9c18e52a06_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TSP\u2019s Kyle Green recently spoke with <a href=\"http:\/\/zapboom.com\/\">Mary Joyce<\/a> about digital activism.\u00a0 This <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2013\/02\/04\/mary-joyce-on-digital-activism\/\">short podcast<\/a> would be great in a class on media, transnational activism, or a variety of other topics.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Here are some questions to accompany the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is digital activism?<\/li>\n<li>Have you participated in anything that could be considered digital activism recently?\u00a0 Did you consider your participation as &#8220;activism&#8221; at the time?<\/li>\n<li>What are the strengths of digital activism?\u00a0 Can you think of any pitfalls?<\/li>\n<li>As a related post on our sister blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/10\/06\/changing-the-development-discourse\/\">Cyborgology<\/a>, points out, the United Nations declared that disconnecting people from the Internet violates their human rights.\u00a0 Do you think access to the Internet should be a human right?\u00a0 Why or why not?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote><p>Note that the project&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/digital-activism.org\/\">website <\/a>also has some tools that could be utilized for the lecture, including a visual\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/digital-activism.org\/index.php\/2012\/12\/the-first-1000-cases\/\">summary<\/a> of their preliminary findings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; TSP\u2019s Kyle Green recently spoke with Mary Joyce about digital activism.\u00a0 This short podcast would be great in a class on media, transnational activism, or a variety of other topics.\u00a0 Most, if not all, students will be able to connect to the material, making it relevant to their everyday lives and a great addition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,140,129,18660],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activism","tag-internet","tag-media","tag-transnational-activism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}