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You can contact me at MaryCJoyce AT gmail DOT com. Client BuzzFeedback 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
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Microsoft's Power Fades as Computer Cedes Dominance to InternetPosted 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 Literary MashupPosted 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
David Weinberger on Fame Culture We CreatePosted 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) | Comment Gazan Youth Phone-bank for Obama OnlinePosted 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: ObamónosPosted by Mary on 21/04/2008 at 20:04
Encontré una nueva palabra: ¡Obamónos! ¡Vamonos a apoyar a Barack Obama! Tags: Barackobama
Mary's DigiActive radio interviewPosted 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) | Comment A Network Map of the Iranian BlogospherePosted by Mary on 07/04/2008 at 16:02
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 Live-Blogging: Larry Lessig Wants to Change CongressPosted by Mary on 04/04/2008 at 19:17
 Larry Lessig, Stanford intellectual extraordinaire and founder of Creative Commons, is here at Harvard Law School to talk about his new campaign Change Congress as part of the Berkman@10 lecture series. He begins with a quote from Ronald Reagan: "A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy." (Read more)Tags: lessig harvard corruption Berkmancenter
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