Who's participating? | How to empower social change?
by Peppi-Emilia Airike on October 14, 2013
Photo source: gwangjublog The Information and Communications Technology (ICT), especially Internet, allows people to expand their knowledge and widen their worldviews, access and share information fast, and learn what is currently happening on the other side of the world. In the globalized world, citizens also become familiar with negative global issues such as poverty, growing […]
Tagged as: development, Doctors Without Borders, Facebook, participation, slacktivism, social media, Twitter, Unicef
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In today’s 21st century world, media audiences are more active than in the earlier decades, and they are now also seen as media users, participants and consumers (Lievrouw, 2011; Mandiberg, 2012). The strict line between media producers and consumers has indeed become blurred (Mandiberg, 2012). The new media’s ‘bottow-up’ landscape has created new possibilities for […]
Tagged as: activism, armchair advocate, Facebook, social media, Twitter
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Social media have made media consumption a part of media production and the use of social media can be argued to increase participation and representation in a society, “empowering the powerless”. But it is also accused of increasing the gap between the developing and the developed world with basis in the argument, by among others […]
Tagged as: arab spring, digital divide, empowerment, participation, slacktivism, social change, social media
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