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livingroom_100x113.jpgIn 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.

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Why Does Citizen Activism Happen?

Posted by Mary on 25/04/2007 at 9:45

The reason why I am interested in digital activism is not because I like tech. Despite the fact that I have been working in the field for two years, I am still intimidated by HTML and the intricacies of the internet. Rather, I am interested in digital activism because it promises a more equitable distribution of political power.

Political change occurs by bringing pressure upon decision-makers. Because of the mass use of the internet and cell phones (ICT), millions of people now have access to the tools of mass communication and message dissemination, mass organizing and microfundraising. No longer

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Maybe the media monolith can be used for good...

Posted by Mary on 19/04/2007 at 19:59

Today I went to the University of Santiago campus to see my boyfriend's mentor, Fernando Flores, receive an honorary doctorate. During the ceremony, a university official asked for the entire audience to stand and observe a moment of silence in memory of the tragedy at Virginia Tech. I was really touched by the show of solidarity, that the administration of a Chilean university would care about a mass murder at a university thousands of miles away.

In general, it's bad that there is basically one global media that determines what is or is not newsworthy. The flaw in this homogenic

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Posted by Mary on 06/02/2007 at 16:33


I just thought I'd add a video to see how it works. This is a video of Parque Inez Suarez, near my apartment in Santiago.

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"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

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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.

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