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Bio In 2006, I founded ZapBoom Consulting, which specializes in the analysis of how digital tools like cell phones and the Internet can be used in social change campaigns in developing countries. I have researched and written reports on topics ranging from online citizen journalism to blog advocacy and internet censorship. I have also performed in-country Internet monitoring and international conference organizing. You can contact me at MaryCJoyce AT gmail DOT com. Read full bio.... Client Buzz Feedback from Zapboom Clients: "Mary's passion and energy for digital activism is obvious in every action and initiative she makes."...read more "Right away she cut to the core of our needs."...read more "She deserves much of the credit for organizing a tremendously successful event."...read more "She was able to turn a potentially complex technical task into something that brought all the different viewpoints together and channelled everyone's energy in a collaborative manner."...read more Digital Activism Projects New! DigiActive.org (our goal is a world of digital activists) Free Fouad (2008 blog campaign) Rayt it! (2007 web annotation project) Free Monem (2007 blog campaign) Free Alaa (2006 blog campaign) Demologue (2005-2007 digital democracy project) Current CV Double-click the image to download. Written Products Blog for a Cause!: The Global Voices Guide to Blog Advocacy (Global Voices, 2008) The Citizen Journalism Web Site 'OhmyNews' and the 2002 South Korean Presidential Election (Internet and Democracy Project, 2007) Internet Watch Report: The 2007 Presidential Elections in Nigeria (OpenNet Initiative, 2007) Social Change Technology in the Global South (Journal of Information Technology and Social Change, 2007) Prospects for e-Advocacy in the Global South (The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Res Publica, 2006) The Election Blogging Guide (Demologue.com, 2006) Morocco Raises Its Voice (Fulbright final report, 2005) View Stats	The Politics of Linguistics in the Digital Age Posted by Mary on 12/05/2008 at 17:41 I thought this image was an interesting commentary on how digital trends are outpacing offline politics. Although anti-immigration activists demand that English become the US's official language, on the Internet traditional English is radically changing due to the rise of user generated content like the image above and LOLcats. This new democratic form of content creation is the source of new slang and norms of spelling and grammar (like the word "serosly"), which is being developed at a rate that I would imagine is unprecidented. When conservative demand that we protect our American culture from change, (Read more) Tags: lolcats semioticdemocracy \| Comment Microsoft's Power Fades as Computer Cedes Dominance to Internet Posted by Mary on 04/05/2008 at 22:48 From today's NY Times: With a bid for Yahoo, Microsoft was trying to buy its way out of the problem. It was a controversial step and a gamble, but at least it was a big move. Now, there is no clear prospect of a quick fix for Microsoft, as the center of gravity in computing continues to move away from the personal computer, Microsoft’s stronghold, and to the Internet. read more... image: www.adenhepburn.com Comment Literary Mashup Posted by Mary on 30/04/2008 at 22:22 I just found the site We Tell Stories. It mashes up stories and maps, taking you through space as well as through narrative, an unusually poetic application of the map mashup meme. Thanks, Ethan. Tags: mashup wetellstories art Comment David Weinberger on Fame Culture We Create Posted by Mary on 28/04/2008 at 15:43 Last Friday I went to ROFLCon, the “rolling on the floor laughing” convention. It was a two-day event organized by an enterprising group of Harvard undergrads (and sponsored by the Berkman Center) to celebrate and explore internet memes and culture. Why is this an appropriate topic for blog on digital activism, you might ask. Although the conference was ostensibly about funny Internet memes it was really about how Internet is fueling the growth of user-generated culture - cultural democracy, if you will. Internet fame, which Berkman fellow David Weinberger discussed in his keynote address, is a perfect (Read more) Tags: Berkmancenter semioticdemocracy \| Comment Gazan Youth Phone-bank for Obama Online Posted by Mary on 23/04/2008 at 11:21 According to a report by Al Jazeera English (see video above) Palestinian youth are using the Internet to run an informal phone bank to call voters in the US before every primary in order to convince them to vote for Barack Obama. The organizer of the international phone-banking initiative, Ibrahim Abu Jayab, age 23, brings a group of 17 friends to a cybercafé in Gaza before every US primary to use Internet telephony to randomly call numbers in the state where the primary is being held and ask citizens to vote for Obama. (Read more) Tags: gaza Barackobama palestine \| Comment Nueva Palabra: Obamónos Posted by Mary on 21/04/2008 at 20:04 Encontré una nueva palabra: ¡Obamónos! ¡Vamonos a apoyar a Barack Obama! Tags: Barackobama \| Comment \| 1 Comment Barack Brushes It Off Posted by Mary on 19/04/2008 at 23:54 Tags: Barackobama youtube \| Comment Mary's DigiActive radio interview Posted by Mary on 12/04/2008 at 18:37 Last week I was interviewed about my digital activism site, DigiActive.org on the Australian community radio program The Fourth Estate with Daz Chandler. You can take a listen below by clicking the green arrow: Topics discussed include my motivation for founding DigiActive, examples of how activists are using Facebook to organize international protests, whether digital activism is elitist, and why it's a good idea to use online commercial tools for activism. \| Comment Is MoveOn Taking the Right Position on Iraq? Posted by Mary on 10/04/2008 at 13:31 One of the reasons I am so excited about digital activism is that it gives a very public voice to people with few financial resources (start a free blog and you instantly have a potential audience of millions). In short, digital activism empowers ordinary citizens to have a significant impact on world affairs But with this privilege comes responsibility. If the Internet allows ordinary citizens to influence world affairs we have to think very carefully about how we use that influence. Case in point: MoveOn's campaign to get American troops out of Iraq. Above is a video they (Read more) Tags: westpoint military iraq moveon \| Comment A Network Map of the Iranian Blogosphere Posted by Mary on 07/04/2008 at 16:02 Network Map of the Iranian Blogosphere: click the image to see a bigger version. In addition to my master's program and DigiActive, I am also a research assistant for the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. For much of this year, John Kelly of Morningside Analytics and Columbia University, and his team, has been studying the Iranian blogosphere for the Internet and Democracy Project. He's used both a network analytics program and human reserch to create the map above. A little bit of explanation: A dot represents a blog. (Read more) Tags: Berkmancenter iran \| Comment 1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 Next Last	Quote of the Week "If you think you can influence the agenda, you walk through the world with different eyes and different ears." -Yochai Benkler What is Digital Activism? Digital activism means grassroots activists using digital technologies like cell phones and the internet to increase their impact, thus subverting traditional power hierarchies and changing the world. The Blog Advocacy Guide Click image to download! Search Search Zapping the Boom There are 33 people browsing "ZapBoom" at the moment. 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Bio

In 2006, I founded ZapBoom Consulting, which specializes in the analysis of how digital tools like cell phones and the Internet can be used in social change campaigns in developing countries. I have researched and written reports on topics ranging from online citizen journalism to blog advocacy and internet censorship. I have also performed in-country Internet monitoring and international conference organizing.

You can contact me at MaryCJoyce AT gmail DOT com.

Read full bio....

Client Buzz

Feedback from Zapboom Clients:

"Mary's passion and energy for digital activism is obvious in every action and initiative she makes."...read more

"Right away she cut to the core of our needs."...read more

"She deserves much of the credit for organizing a tremendously successful event."...read more

"She was able to turn a potentially complex technical task into something that brought all the different viewpoints together and channelled everyone's energy in a collaborative manner."...read more

Digital Activism Projects

New! DigiActive.org (our goal is a world of digital activists)
Free Fouad (2008 blog campaign)
Rayt it! (2007 web annotation project)
Free Monem (2007 blog campaign)
Free Alaa (2006 blog campaign)
Demologue (2005-2007 digital democracy project)

Current CV

Double-click the image to download.

Written Products

Blog for a Cause!: The Global Voices Guide to Blog Advocacy
(Global Voices, 2008)
The Citizen Journalism Web Site 'OhmyNews' and the 2002 South Korean Presidential Election
(Internet and Democracy Project, 2007)
Internet Watch Report: The 2007 Presidential Elections in Nigeria
(OpenNet Initiative, 2007)
Social Change Technology in the Global South
(Journal of Information Technology and Social Change, 2007)

Prospects for e-Advocacy in the Global South
(The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Res Publica, 2006)
The Election Blogging Guide
(Demologue.com, 2006)
Morocco Raises Its Voice (Fulbright final report, 2005)

View Stats

The Politics of Linguistics in the Digital Age

Posted by Mary on 12/05/2008 at 17:41

I thought this image was an interesting commentary on how digital trends are outpacing offline politics.

Although anti-immigration activists demand that English become the US's official language, on the Internet traditional English is radically changing due to the rise of user generated content like the image above and LOLcats. This new democratic form of content creation is the source of new slang and norms of spelling and grammar (like the word "serosly"), which is being developed at a rate that I would imagine is unprecidented.

When conservative demand that we protect our American culture from change,

(Read more)

Tags: lolcats semioticdemocracy

| Comment

Microsoft's Power Fades as Computer Cedes Dominance to Internet

Posted by Mary on 04/05/2008 at 22:48

From today's NY Times:

With a bid for Yahoo, Microsoft was trying to buy its way out of the problem. It was a controversial step and a gamble, but at least it was a big move. Now, there is no clear prospect of a quick fix for Microsoft, as the center of gravity in computing continues to move away from the personal computer, Microsoft’s stronghold, and to the Internet. read more...

image: www.adenhepburn.com

Comment

Literary Mashup

Posted by Mary on 30/04/2008 at 22:22

I just found the site We Tell Stories. It mashes up stories and maps, taking you through space as well as through narrative, an unusually poetic application of the map mashup meme. Thanks, Ethan.

Comment

David Weinberger on Fame Culture We Create

Posted by Mary on 28/04/2008 at 15:43

roflcon

Last Friday I went to ROFLCon, the “rolling on the floor laughing” convention. It was a two-day event organized by an enterprising group of Harvard undergrads (and sponsored by the Berkman Center) to celebrate and explore internet memes and culture.

Why is this an appropriate topic for blog on digital activism, you might ask. Although the conference was ostensibly about funny Internet memes it was really about how Internet is fueling the growth of user-generated culture - cultural democracy, if you will. Internet fame, which Berkman fellow David Weinberger discussed in his keynote address, is a perfect

(Read more)

Tags: Berkmancenter semioticdemocracy

| Comment

Gazan Youth Phone-bank for Obama Online

Posted by Mary on 23/04/2008 at 11:21

According to a report by Al Jazeera English (see video above) Palestinian youth are using the Internet to run an informal phone bank to call voters in the US before every primary in order to convince them to vote for Barack Obama.

The organizer of the international phone-banking initiative, Ibrahim Abu Jayab, age 23, brings a group of 17 friends to a cybercafé in Gaza before every US primary to use Internet telephony to randomly call numbers in the state where the primary is being held and ask citizens to vote for Obama.

(Read more)

Tags: gaza Barackobama palestine

| Comment

Nueva Palabra: Obamónos

Posted by Mary on 21/04/2008 at 20:04

Encontré una nueva palabra: ¡Obamónos!

¡Vamonos a apoyar a Barack Obama!

Tags: Barackobama

| Comment |

1 Comment

Barack Brushes It Off

Posted by Mary on 19/04/2008 at 23:54

Tags: Barackobama youtube

| Comment

Mary's DigiActive radio interview

Posted by Mary on 12/04/2008 at 18:37

Last week I was interviewed about my digital activism site, DigiActive.org on the Australian community radio program The Fourth Estate with Daz Chandler. You can take a listen below by clicking the green arrow:

Topics discussed include my motivation for founding DigiActive, examples of how activists are using Facebook to organize international protests, whether digital activism is elitist, and why it's a good idea to use online commercial tools for activism.

| Comment

Is MoveOn Taking the Right Position on Iraq?

Posted by Mary on 10/04/2008 at 13:31

One of the reasons I am so excited about digital activism is that it gives a very public voice to people with few financial resources (start a free blog and you instantly have a potential audience of millions). In short, digital activism empowers ordinary citizens to have a significant impact on world affairs

But with this privilege comes responsibility. If the Internet allows ordinary citizens to influence world affairs we have to think very carefully about how we use that influence. Case in point: MoveOn's campaign to get American troops out of Iraq. Above is a video they

(Read more)

Tags: westpoint military iraq moveon

| Comment

A Network Map of the Iranian Blogosphere

Posted by Mary on 07/04/2008 at 16:02

Network Map of the Iranian Blogosphere: click the image to see a bigger version.

In addition to my master's program and DigiActive, I am also a research assistant for the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. For much of this year, John Kelly of Morningside Analytics and Columbia University, and his team, has been studying the Iranian blogosphere for the Internet and Democracy Project. He's used both a network analytics program and human reserch to create the map above.

A little bit of explanation: A dot represents a blog.

(Read more)

Tags: Berkmancenter iran

| Comment

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Quote of the Week

"If you think you can influence the agenda, you walk through the world with different eyes and different ears."

-Yochai Benkler

What is Digital Activism?

Digital activism means grassroots activists using digital technologies like cell phones and the internet to increase their impact, thus subverting traditional power hierarchies and changing the world.

The Blog Advocacy Guide

Click image to download!

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