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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 
Since I arrived in Cambridge a month ago, I've been talking to lots of smart people to get their opinions on digital activism. Some are eminent scholars of political science (my profs), some work at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, some are professional political organizers. Overwhelmingly, I have received the same reaction when I talk about the politically transformative power of digital tools: skepticism.
I won't lie - this has been disheartening. I thought here in Cambridge, here at Harvard, people would be more open to digital political transformation. It's not that they don't understand that the Internet and cell phones can connect people to each other and to information on a scale never before achieved. They just don't think that these new tools are going to fundamentally change the political order. They don't see these tools as politically transformative the way I do. They see them as tactics, methods for citizens to fight a little more effectively in a political game whose rules will remain the same as they have for decades.
I can't simply disregard their opinions. The consensus is overwhelming and these people have far more experience than I do in their respective fields. But one thing did give me hope. As we ended a rather dispiriting conversation about digital activism, my comparative politics professor, Pepper Culpepper, gave me a ray of hope.
"That's your job," he said, "to prove us old guys wrong."
"So it's supposed to be hard?" I responded.
"Yes," he said,"definitely."
"a political game whose rules will remain the same as they have for decades."
Indeed, the game, as it rules exist today, are pretty well understood. What you need to figure out is how this "transformative technology" can be rule-breaking or otherwise game-changing.
Keep plugging away at it until the luck moment arrives. Don't get discouraged.